ULAN BATOR (Sputnik), Svetlana Alexandrova — The international community must cooperate with the legitimate Syrian regime to counter terrorism, the head of the Russian delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) said Wednesday.
"We should make necessary practical conclusions. So Russia calls on the international community to start a dialogue with the Syrian authority and to work together to combat terrorism. Only this will help to stabilize the situation in Europe," Sergei Naryshkin said.
According to the Russian delegation head, it is unacceptable to justify nationalism, extremism and terrorism, and this policy must be included within the framework of the OSCE.
"The gross interference of the United States and NATO into the lives of Iraq, Libya and Syria has led to conflicts and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. What huge efforts must have been taken to produce and foster the terrorist ISIL organization under the slogan of democratic freedoms," Naryshkin added.
The United States seeks to remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, while Russia advocates a political solution to the crisis alongside cooperation with Syrian authorities in the fight against ISIL.
Nearly 200 parliamentarians from 57 countries gathered in the Mongolian capital on September 16-18 for the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly 2015 Autumn Meeting.
