"The best response to this is actually coming together, overcoming our differences and trying together to lead to a peace in Syria," Mogherini stressed.
She said that a string of attacks on a Paris concert hall, restaurants and a bombing near Stade de France "give another kind of meaning to the meeting."
"Countries seating around the table today have all experienced the same thing the same sorrow the same shock: France — the day before, Russia – weeks ago, Turkey, so we are together in this," the top EU diplomat noted.
The Paris massacre comes two weeks after a Russian passenger plane came down in Egypt’s Sinai desert, in what is suspected to have been a bombing. All 224 people on board perished in the crash.
"There is a need for the international community to unite as all the countries here and all the international community are equally effected by terrorism and the only possible response is to be united," Mogherini continued.
Near-simultaneous gun and bomb attacks hit seven venues around Paris, killing some 130 people and prompting condemnations from world leaders. The massacre overshadowed ministerial talks on the Syrian reconciliation in Vienna.
