Tehran: Vienna statement on Syria was “relatively moderate”

Tehran, SANA- Vienna statement on Syria was “relatively moderate” and it didn’t include “extreme approaches” which stipulated that the political solution should be determined by the Syrian people who are the only side to draw their future, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told journalists upon his arrival in Tehran back from Vienna on Saturday.

An expanded meeting on the level of foreign ministers, which brought together 16^th countries, was held in Vienna on Friday to discuss means of pushing forward the political settlement for the crisis in Syria.

Zarif said that Iran’s efforts managed to correct some of the items of the final statement on the necessity of confronting terrorism, affirming that the future of Syria is determined by the Syrian people only.

He affirmed that all countries have to recognize that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist organization is the enemy of all which poses threat to the whole region.

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