Saudi FM tells Paris meeting fight against ISIS will last decade

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Written by : Michel Abu Najm

on : Tuesday, 16 Sep, 2014

Saudi FM tells Paris meeting fight against ISIS will last decade

Iran absent from international crisis meeting on extremist group

From L-R, Iraqi President Fuad Masoum, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, and Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari arrive at the International Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq at the French Foreign Ministry in Paris, on September 15, 2014. (AFP Photo/Michel Euler)

Paris and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will likely take a decade, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal told an international summit in Paris on Monday devoted to dealing with the threat of the extremist organization.

Speaking at the meeting—which drew representatives from 30 countries, including the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and nine Arab states as well as Turkey—Prince Saud said: “The fight against terrorism will not end with one battle or in a short time. All the evidence suggests this confrontation will take a long time.”

He added: “Therefore, we see the importance in the continuation of the coalition that will be formed to fight ISIS for at least 10 years so that we can guarantee the destruction of this repulsive phenomenon.”

Following the end of the meeting, the participating countries issued a joint statement expressing their determination to “remove [iSIS] from the regions in which it has established itself in Iraq,” and vowed to provide help to the new Iraqi government in its fight against the group “by any means necessary, including appropriate military assistance.”

In his own statement following the conclusion of the meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said there could be no “double standards in the fight against terrorism, whether it is called ISIS or the Al-Nusra Front or something else.”

He called Iran and Syria the “natural allies in the fight against ISIS,” saying “their participation [in the Paris meeting] could have helped our efforts here.”

Representatives from Iran were not in attendance at the meeting on Monday, despite the presence of military advisors from the Islamic Republic among Iraqi forces.

French sources have said both France and Iraq were keen on Tehran’s presence at the meeting but that “consensus could not be achieved” among all attendees on Iran’s participation due to its “role in Syria and its support of President Bashar Al-Assad, its failure to endorse the aims of the conference, and the lack of clarity regarding its motives.”

An Arab diplomatic source who attended the meeting, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Asharq Al-Awsat that during the closed session Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari told the attendees he would have preferred Iran to have been invited to the talks. The source added this came as Jaafari spoke about the importance of regional participation in the fight against ISIS.

Other sources speaking on condition of anonymity told Asharq Al-Awsat that US Secretary of State John kerry, along with Gulf States, were “not pleased with the West’s recent realignment toward Tehran,” insisting that Iran not participate in the meetings.

This comes as a number of Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt pledged to join a US-led international coalition to fight the extremist group in Iraq, though details of their specific contribution to joint efforts remain unclear.

As for the US, it stepped up its efforts against ISIS in Iraq on Monday night, launching air strikes against positions occupied by the group in what the US military described as the first of a new wave of attacks.

“The air strike southwest of Baghdad was the first taken as part of our expanded efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions to hit [iSIS] targets as Iraqi forces go on offence, as outlined in the [uS] president’s speech last Wednesday,” a US military spokesperson said.

http://www.aawsat.net/2014/09/article55336625

[Nadita]

And you stop funding them 

[easyrider]

another 10 years of war..... that the U.S will get dragged into.  SAD.

Edited September 16, 2014 by easyrider

[RAGARCIA62]

Yep, messed up, but needs to get done. Our world sucks sometimes but we are the ones that can get this done. Remove ISIS permanently. Bunch of evil motherfu....s they are.

Anywhoo, go RV. . Soon, I hope.

[calkid11]

Thank you

[Seabee]

So what happens when we defeat ISSL? Who will be the next thugs to come along, and as usual it will have to be the US to come to the rescue and save everyone.

Look what happened when Japan snuck up on us at the start of WWII. Then the attacks took on the civilian population on the East Coast, on 9-11. The US must never let its guard down for any terrorist group, this also mean the average American. This include those that live on Main St., State St, Maple St. or Smith Rd. and Lake Rd. Most people will say the US spends to much money fighting terrorist. To this I would have to say, how much would YOU have to spend should you have to rebuild your condo, townhouse or your home. Before you say anything think about this, more than likely insurance may not cover your loss. You know already what they will tell you,

"AN ACT OF GOD" I will not tell you here in this thread of what the terror groups can do to destroy or upset our immediate lives, I am not here to put ideas in anyone's head.

The world is a lot smaller than it once was and we can no longer turn a blind eye to blind eye to this, of course we should have been doing this after 9-11. I am still surprised to learn many of my friends when they come home from are turning networks like the Comedy Channel, Nickolodian, True TV and the likes. Then when you ask them what they think about what's going on with ISSL, they tell you they don't know. Remember the three monkeys, oh let me remind you,"SEE NO EVIL, HERE NO EVIL, AND SAY NO EVIL"

I don't want keep.ranting, because I know the members of DV are much smarter than all of the people that I have described above. I just wanted to voice my opinion and agree the we will be in this terrorist fight for many years to come.