TEHRAN. Sept 7 (Interfax) - It is critically important to separate members of organizations designated as terrorist ones by the United Nations Security Council from armed opposition members in Syria in terms of preventing civilian casualties, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a joint statement following a tripartite summit in Tehran.
The three presidents "reaffirmed their determination to continue cooperation in order to ultimately eliminate DAESH/ISIL [banned in Russia], Al-Nusra Front [banned in Russia] and all other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with Al-Qaeda [banned in Russia] or DAESH/ISIL, as they have been designated as terrorists by the UN Security Council," the statement says.
"They underlined that, in the fight against terrorism, separation between the above-mentioned terrorist groups and the armed opposition groups that had joined or would join the ceasefire regime would be of utmost importance including with respect to preventing civilian casualties," it says.