UNITED NATIONS: Syria stands with a worldwide effort to combat Islamic State, Foreign Minister Walid Al Moualem said yesterday, in a statement to the United Nations that appeared to give tacit approval of US and Arab air strikes in Syria targeting the militants.
Moualem told the United Nations General Assembly that military action to tackle Islamic State, Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing Nusra Front, and other extremist groups should coincide with cutting off their flow of funds, weapons, fighters and training.
“It is due time to pool all our efforts against this terrorism, since imminent danger is surrounding everyone and no country is immune to it,” Moualem told the annual gathering of world leaders, though he cautioned that any military action must abide by international law and respect a country’s sovereignty.
Reuters
