Putin: France thinks Syrian forces could unite with Free Syrian Army against IS

Putin: France thinks Syrian forces could unite with Free Syrian Army against IS
# 07 October 2015 14:07 (UTC +04:00)

Putin was in Paris on Friday for talks with Hollande as well as the leaders of Germany and Ukraine, according to The Republic newspaper.

Putin said in televised remarks Wednesday that he found Hollande's idea "interesting" but insisted Moscow still has too little information on the Free Syrian Army. He says "we still don't know where it is and who leads it."

But the Russian leader added that "since (the Free Syrian Army) is supposed to be the combat unit of the so-called healthy opposition, it would create good conditions for a political settlement in Syria if they could join forces against the common enemy, terrorists, the Islamic State, the Nusra Front and others."

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