Russian FM: No Talks with Terrorists in Syria

(FNA)- Any talks are out of place with terrorists in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with a weekly program on TV channel NTV on Sunday.

"We refuse to have talks and do not recommend other parties to hold talks with them over principled considerations," Lavrov said, Voice of Russia reported.

Sergei Lavrov said the situation in Syria and on its borders called for a soonest compromise between the government and adequate, secular and patriotic opposition in order for them to unite against the escalating terrorist threat.

"I cannot see such structures as Jebhat al-Nusra, Islamic state of Iraq and Levant and other Al-Qaeda branches in negotiating process," the Minister explained.

At the same time, Lavrov said that the recently established Syrian Islamic Front, a Salafist umbrella organization of Islamist rebel groups fighting the Assad government, was raising questions about its ability to return peace to Syria, since several of its affiliated groups were linked to the bloody Adra massacre that killed at least 32 civilians about 20 kilometers North of Damascus.