Kerry said during a visit to Spain that the United States wants to avoid the "total destruction" of Syria and that he is going into the talks only with the expectation of all parties trying to better understand what the options are and how to proceed.
"Everybody, including the Russians and the Iranians, have all said there is no military solution, so we need to get about the effort of finding the political solution," he said. "This is a human catastrophe that now threatens the integrity of a whole group of countries around the region."
Russia has been conducting airstrikes for three weeks in support of Syrian troops as part of a campaign that has drawn sharp criticism from the U.S. and others that say Russian forces are mainly targeting rebels and not Islamic State militants.
Kerry said if Russia is only there to "prop up" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, then they will only attract more militants to the fight.
"If on the other hand Russia is there to help Assad find a way to a political solution as well as to fight Daesh and extremism, then there is the possibility of a very different path," he said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.
Kerry called the massive influx of migrants who have fled to Europe, many of them from Syria, unprecedented in modern times and said there is a real threat of many more following the same path if the violence in Syria continues............http://www.voanews.com/content/kerry-plans-multilateral-talks-on-syria-political-transition/3013331.html
19/10/15
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