Obama Read to Work With Russian Federation and Iran

Mr Putin said Russia’s support for the Assad government was based on the UN Charter.

Putin called for the creation of a broader global anti-terrorist coalition with majority-Muslim countries as members, an appeal that may compete with the group that the United States has assembled to fight Islamic State.

Despite administration efforts to turn Putin into an worldwide pariah after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014, Obama believes not engaging with the Russian leader “would be wrong” given the pressing issues in Ukraine and Syria, Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said.

Though Russia has also spoken out against ISIS, which the U.S.is already fighting in Syria, the Russian military movements indicate that combating the terror group may not be Moscow’s primary objective for joining the fight in the country.

He spoke ahead of rare talks with U.S. President Barack Obama as the Syrian crisis is expected to top the agenda at the United Nations in New York.

Monday’s address by Putin, who has showed up the United Nations gathering for the first time in a decade, was one of the most highly anticipated.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday, he denounced ISIL but also said that there can’t be a return to the status quo under Bashar al-Assad.

It could bring a record number of world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, who hasn’t attended in years.

He was somewhat more definitive in the latest interview.

“But we are,” he said, “considering intensifying our work with both President Assad and with our partners in other countries”.

“Russia will not take part in any field operations on the territory of Syria or in other states; at least, we do not plan it for now”.

“We can not stand by when the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a nation is flagrantly violated,” he said.

Russia’s RIA news agency cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying that a meeting of regional representatives with an interest in a resolution to the Syrian conflict, along with Russia and the United States, could be arranged as early as October.

Putin: Well, I think we listen to each other in a way, especially when it comes to something that doesn’t go counter to our own ideas about what we should and should not do.