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Germany presses Iran to use sway over Assad to end war in Syria

TEHRAN - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged Iran on Saturday to use its influence over Syrian President Bashar Assad to move towards a diplomatic end to Syria's civil war.

 

Steinmeier, on a four-day trip to the Middle East, travels to Saudi Arabia on Sunday and is using his meetings to weigh up how to bring Tehran and Riyadh into talks to reach a solution to the four-year-old Syrian conflict.

  

"My wish is that Iran uses its influence in the government and on Assad and his entourage so that we take the first steps towards a de-escalation in Syria," he said in Tehran on the first official visit to Iran by a German foreign minister in more than 10 years.

 

Steinmeier said he wanted Assad's forces to stop using barrel bombs and to allow aid organisations access to people in need of help.

 


פרסום ראשון: 10.17.15, 16:02