YEREVAN. April 22 (Interfax) - The withdrawal of the High Negotiations Committee's radical part from the intra-Syrian negotiations in Geneva means that the negotiating process has been improving, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"Several persons from the so-called high negotiations team, the High Negotiations Committee, have dropped out. They disagreed with the control of radicals, including Jaysh al-Islam leaders, over the Committee," Lavrov said at a press conference in Yerevan on Friday.
"This organization is increasingly proving that we were right to suggest that it be added to the list of terrorist organizations; we agreed to compromise for the sake of the soonest ceasefire and gave it a chance within the framework of the International Syria Support Group [ISSG] agreements," Lavrov said.
"Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar ash-Sham have been actively demonstrating that they fully share the inhumane and ruthless approaches of ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra," he said.
"So, I believe that the Syria negotiations are improving: if those who blatantly reject the foundation of the concept approved by the UN Security Council, which says that only the Syrians can decide on the future of their country at the negotiations, if such people are leaving the negotiations platform, no one but them will lose," the Russian foreign minister said.