we were also pushed to new concepts for a security of the persian gulf region pass for a western counterparts. and syria. i have mixed feelings. about it we have some you know dialogue with the us on the military situation and the escalation this dark is not always public. and based on our dialogue we can see that the us. in a problematic way if they say that syria. could be maintained as a country of many really region groups many ethnic groups you greg syverson used to tell me that the main goal of the us in syria is dismantling defeating isis but right now it's getting vaguer and vaguer which.

you know what actually we are looking for is they say that they will stay in syria until an inevitable political process would start in syria and some even adds the. process when asked should go. but we should well you know it's just like the same as when they promised us that nato would not expand in the one nine hundred ninety s. their manner is almost the same. we were put in this little. thing to do so not sure that other western countries. are interested in having this crisis is resolved through any means. of sort of. it was up of some. western.

countries european countries where you. believe that you wish to impose their leadership. because of business they want to demonstrate to the entire worlds that without them you would not be able to resolve it we don't have that to go to stick approach we put forward the us the name and date was one of the tools to help. pacify the situation of the ground so we were able to you. if you could we would distinguish. a sane opposition groups from terrorist groups or. terrorists and now are fleeing those territories into other countries but that's a separate topic now we put forward an initiative convening the. syrian national dialogue congress the austin are the process they

asked in the talks were convened after ten months of de lay in the geneva process and once we launch the process so are. those who organize the geneva talks the ok we also have a new session. when you're building this year the platform also delays saudi arabia. facilitated. solidarity among opposition groups we helped it to but the geneva talks again spirit some delays now we have the mosque in cairo opposition groups came together saudi arabia helped in that. but the leaders the who were elected to a spot of this united tell a geisha started to issue ultimatums which were absolutely unacceptable and then

they tried to discredit the saudi counterparts who have told us and mr de mistura u.n. special envoy in syria. told us that this delegation would come to geneva without any preconditions for direct contacts with the syrian government so they cheated on. our saudi counterparts are non stop funding as to or from where stefano mistura paid a visit to us together with our defense minister minister shari go with the we explained that the syrian groups have behaved in an acceptable way and at the same time we've been also working with the government so that this use a constructive policy but he cannot. accuse the government or you would be of refusing to talk to those who issued an ultimatum that said should

go. the goal of this move the stream is to were taken out of position groups before the talks but obviously there are still some people with extremist views who might be influencing others but at the same time as i said we are pushing for the syrian national dialogue congress. which the us the. and again this is in line with the in security council resolution twenty two fifty four and it says there is we need to have direct talks between delegations of the governments on the full spectrum of the opposition. with we and as we understand the area. with the car and with moscow groups don't represent the full spectrum of the opposition most of those who come

to geneva. the leave in european a capitals they don't leave in syria but in order to comply with the resolution twenty two fifty four we. called for you on everyone we used to our military on it and they may mean they've established some contacts. apart from establishing de-escalation so apart from bringing live normally in the lab in other cities we've engaged about seventeen hundred people. but it was in the efforts to promote the political process we have shakes we have tribal leaders believe in the new which. is some of the tribes have not did not take part in the through warbirds they leave on those territories and they have a say in the future constitution but they are not represented by the. opposition

groups that come to geneva so we have the long list we're now finalizing this list with our partners who are grant to the us no process turkey and iran which we knew we had a trilateral summit in sochi where this initiative was supported and we explained it to mr demi story because it doesn't mean that we try to hijack your initiative from the geneva process for. an attempt to to held launch this constitutional process not only in this narrow format where there are a platform where i am a grace would be representative you know this would be a platform these would sure would be most representative. once this committee on the constitution reform would be form we see is formed the geneva talks would be resumed and definitely we would support this process led by

mr de mistura in the us. mr lavrov i just want to clarify something that the united states has about ten bases in northern syria does this help with the consensus or not but you are well i don't think that it has a lot of impact so we know that the congress has been supported by most of the syrians on the ground the us does have some air bases. but we got information that the train. sim is the. move the military. groups the area including from are those who used to be part of terrorist groups but. the syrian government has been really prognathic in parade with. aircraft mission

with girls who were to tell me illegitimately invited to help fight terrorists and with the u.s. led coalition. and again this held to. destroy isis. we need to we needed to shake up the u.s. led coalition to be pretty passive for the very beginning and we knew that. with with our help we would. destroy isis together but before we came there was the u.s. led coalition have been has been very lenient and condescending on. and also on ice . but that's a separate topic. we've been very pragmatic we've become prating with the u.s. and jordan and sons and deescalation zone. has

a trilateral monitoring center. and we have holland holland hides close by and we need to accommodate the concerns. of the world very complex issue so many factors are in play. and there are many external players there. promote their own agendas. sleeves i want to try to help the tribal. groups who are people same phase. others i will tell you that what was this was you don't want to see some groups strengthening in syria but we definitely need inclusive syrian dialogue which we want to launch a little bit but we need to dialogue where every group would be represented and we

are every group's interest would be held in the future architecture of power in syria without there the geneva process would not be successful so the end of january we would have this congress and this would help put your world to making. new practical step towards the constitution process it definitely requires more groups than those represented in geneva. we have a new project our team line and our viewers keep asking us relations between russia and egypt we know that these two countries have recently signed an agreement on the use of fares based and airport infrastructure so we'd like to ask you if some of our russian aircraft currently based at i mean will be moved to egypt and are you considering options for fighting terrorists together particularly in libya you know we've been working very closely with our colleagues in egypt for quite

a long time and we have a strategic partnership developing in different areas trade in investment to we have a project to where we work together on building a nuclear power plant we want to create a russian industrial zone in egypt and the many other things going on where your community here in ties including military cooperation military technical cooperation plays an important role especially considering the threat coming from terrorists in this entire region with your share of it including egypt with a. very high degree and we support the intention of the egyptian leadership to fight terrorists and military cooperation are a supply of the weapons and. equipment for their anti-terrorist activity is working quite well we have close ties between our militaries we have joint military

drills and this really helps this really helps us to share our experience for example experience we got in syria fighting terrorists there. any relocation of our true. from mean to we don't have any such plans recently we sign an agreement on the operation in peace it's a technical agreement but it to reflect. the partnership relations include some practical provisions like free political. process seeing for flights in each other's airspace providing military services guarding. airfields and mutual military assistance. and my final question on the middle east and then i would hand over to my.

spanish colleague. suggested in the country recently so we don't know what's happening there really. what is russia's assessment. can we move the political process forward given the complexities and different attitudes in the gulf countries. these system the nation of the lips of course made the situation much more difficult. for you and now you. have radicalized they had. with the congress all that by the late solich then they had some internal contradiction we encouraged both parties that there was some understanding currently we see serious escalation there we see the threat of a complete blockade. in the matter what happens there there is only one way and this is peace talks like

a support group which gathers from time to time to assist with the un special envoy for yemen. i hope. good because that is what i said that he will promote unbiased uniting initiatives. instead of taking sides this is very important for a mediator of course so we talk to our saudi colleagues who we talked to the americans the british. and here were a needs and i just mentioned when i answered your previous question many problems would be much easier to resolve we formally we had. harmony among persian states and.