Sergei Lavrov: talking about creating a coalition against the IG will continue – Kommersant

Russia and Saudi Arabia in favor of consolidated struggle against the terrorist organization “Islamic State”, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “We have a common view on the need to consolidate efforts in the fight against the common threat posed by the IG and other terrorist organizations, the threat is real, and for Russia and Saudi Arabia, and to countries outside the region”, – quotes “RIA Novosti” words Minister.

Mr. Lavrov reminded about the idea of ​​Russian President Vladimir Putin on the establishment of a broad international coalition against the IG. “I am confident that we will continue to discuss this initiative, already have some blueprint on how to concretely move towards this goal, and the conversation will continue,” – he said at a press conference after talks with his Saudi counterpart, Adel al-Dzhubeyrom .

Sergei Lavrov also stressed that Moscow and Riyadh are hoping that after the agreement on Iran’s nuclear program between Tehran and the Arab countries of the region will be through dialogue. “We expressed the hope that in this new environment will be further efforts to establish a constructive dialogue between all the Gulf countries, including the Arab states and the Islamic Republic of Iran”, – said Mr. Lavrov.

As reported by “Kommersant”, the second in the last two months of a visit to Russia, the representative of the Saudi leadership has to be a new step towards the normalization of relations between the two countries in recent years, were frozen in connection with the their opposing positions on Syria. Interrupting a pause, Russia and Saudi Arabia go to bargain on security and bilateral business cooperation. Riyadh is trying to change Moscow’s attitude to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, promising her a multibillion-dollar projects. In turn, Moscow continues to promote the idea of ​​a broad coalition to combat “Islamic state”, which so far has not found any support Saudi Arabia nor its ally the United States.

Details on relations between Moscow and Riyadh, read the material “b”, “Russia and Saudi Arabia began to meet more often».