MOSCOW, (SANA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow is prepared to host on international conference on Syria, stressing that Iran's participation in this conference is necessary.
In statements to journalists on Tuesday, Lavrov said that the Russian initiative on holding this conference is part of the efforts to implement the UN Security Council resolutions on adopting the plan of UN Envoy to Syria Kofi Annan.
He noted that the conference proposed by Moscow is fundamentally different from the conferences of the so-called "friends of Syria" group, stressing that Russia posed specific and clear principles for holding this conference.
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