Iran calls for ending Syrian crisis

Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 11

By Khalid Kazimov - Trend:

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called for unilateral fight against extremism, IRNA news agency reported.

Zarif who is in Germany to attend the meeting of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) in Bavaria, Germany, in the run-up to the Munich Security Conference, made the remarks at his arrival in Munich.

"The Western and regional countries must understand the reality of joint and unilateral fight against extremism and come up with a rational solution to end crisis in Syria," he said.

Zarif said that the international community has missed a deadline to end the Syrian crisis and finding a solution to end the crisis has been postponed due to wrong policies and irrational pre-conditions set by some countries or groups.

It is also necessary to differentiate terrorists from opposition groups in Syria, he added.

A UN Security Council resolution in December last year approved a draft resolution on peace process in Syria. According to the resolution, Syrian government and opposition groups should attend peace talks to find a solution for putting an end to the crisis.

However just a few days after launching the talks in the Swiss City of Geneva, the UN suspended peace talks suggesting that they will be resumed soon. Syrian sides keep blaming each other for the collapse of the talks.

Over 250,000 people have died and at least 11 million have been displaced in Syria, since the crisis broke out in 2011.