Putin to announce initiative on resolving Syrian crisis at UN- diplomat

Russian President Vladimir Putin will announce his initiative for resolving the crisis in Syria and combating terrorism during the UN General Assembly session on September 28th, Russian ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin said on Saturday.

Zasypkin said that this initiative consisted of three stages, and that it came as a result of talks held between Moscow and countries with influence on the situation in Syria, the Russia Today TV channel reported.

He explained that the first stage focused on uniting all sides to take out Daesh in Syria, while the second involved having influential regional and international forces pressure armed groups to embrace a political solution, and finally the third involved uniting efforts to stop the funding of terrorists and prevent them from entering Syria from neighboring countries.

Source: MENA