The liquidation of terrorism sources in Syria remained the key task, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said, noting that Moscow urging the US to consider it.
He said that for Russia it is clear that there could be no agreements with terrorists. "The elimination of the terrorist hotbed in Syria was and remains the key task," Ryabkov said in an interview with the Izvestiya newspaper.
The diplomat pointed out that if the United States had accepted the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin to form a wide antiterrorist front, many misunderstandings would have been avoided.
"We call for the Americans to consider it in their policy,"TASS cited Ryabkov as saying.
