The United Nations General Assembly will hear today (September 28) the long-promised address by President Vladimir Putin, which is unlikely to contain any shocking surprises. The main content of his initiative on bringing the devastating civil war in Syria to an end has already been tested in many international fora and explained to numerous regional leaders, including Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, in a series of face-to-face meetings (Rbc.ru, September 22). He has found no takers for his main proposition—that peace in Syria should be restored by joining efforts to exterminate the Islamic State …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation