9 Jan 2013 17:38

Moscow insists that Assad's ideas be taken into account

MOSCOW. Jan 9 (Interfax) - Moscow has insisted that, in seeking a settlement formula for the conflict in Syria, the international community take into account ideas put forward by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a speech on Sunday.

"The Russian side expects that the search for forms of international support for the settlement process of the acute domestic crisis in Syria will have an effective continuation, including on the basis of the Action Group's Geneva communique of June 30, 2012, and with account taken of ideas expressed in a speech of the president of the Syrian Arab Republic, Bashar al-Assad, on January 6," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.