3 Jul 2015 14:47

Moscow could offer support to Arab League structure in UN SC to fight terrorism - Lavrov

MOSCOW. July 3 (Interfax) - If necessary, Russia will provide political assistance to the efforts of the Arab League to form a military coalition to fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said following talks with his Luxembourg counterpart Jean Asselborn.

"If this organization thinks that there are ways to increase the efficiency of the joint fight against terrorist the threat, we will just welcome this. And when such structures are formed, if some assistance is needed from us, firstly political, legal, maybe in the UN Security Council, of course, we will provide such support," Lavrov said.