President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he saw no legitimate successor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and France no longer considered his departure a pre-condition to resolving the six-year-old conflict. He said Assad was an “enemy of the Syrian people”, but not of France and that Paris’ priority was fighting ...
Moscow and Paris have identified concrete ways of promoting cooperation between the two countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “In a narrow circle, we discussed a range of very important issues, I think we outlined fairly concrete ways to advance our cooperation, as our presidents demanded, and we also ...