AMMAN - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on June 26 Iran's participation was crucial to the success of a meeting on the escalating conflict in Syria planned by U.N.-Arab league peace envoy Kofi Annan in Geneva this weekend.
Lavrov added that regardless of whether representatives from
Iran were present, he would attend the international conference
which Annan is attempting to organise on June 30 in Geneva.
“We are ready to go. Iran must be present. Otherwise the
circle of participants will be incomplete and will not gather
everybody who has influence on all Syrian sides,” Lavrov told
reporters.
“I think it (Iran) must be invited. There is an
understanding (about this) among those who are most actively
organising it (the conference),” he said, on the sidelines of
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Jordan.
