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“This is a plan that doesn’t compromise on security and safety, the screening measures that Canadians rightly expect us to have for refugees … especially when they’re coming from a conflict zone with such large-scale terrorist organizations in them.”

Basha, who has cousins fleeing from Syria to Europe, said refugees can be a valuable asset to the region.

He said that while it was vital to coordinate efforts against Islamic State militants this was not yet happening.

The two leaders met following highly contentious and conflicting speeches at the UN General Assembly earlier in the day.

Iran believes that the United States is the one that started the crisis by creating and then backing terrorist groups such as the ISIL and other Takfiri groups, and therefore Washington is not fit to be a focal point in the Syria talks, Esmail Kosari, member of the National...

Its repeated vetoes, mainly on intervention in Syria or calling for investigations into alleged atrocities committed by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, have led to criticism that the Kremlin is undermining the council.

Putin, without naming the United States, accused Washington of trying to enforce its will on others and mulling a possible reform of the U.N., which he suggested stands in the way of the perceived US domination.

As pioneers accumulated in New York at the United Nations general gathering, the U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry, talked about Syria with the Russian outside clergyman Sergei Lavrov.

Russia’s sudden military build-up this month in support of Assad and a refugee crisis that has spilled over from the region into Europe have lent new urgency to attempts to resolve the Syria conflict.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that while Syria’s government needs reform, the country will fall to the Islamic States if the worldwide community makes getting rid of Assad its top goal.

In an interview with CBS television, Mr Putin said the Syrian president’s troops were “the only legitimate conventional army there”.

Washington has demanded that Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad step down, but Putin’s rival alliance with Shiite-led states will instead shore up the beleaguered government in Damascus.

The views expressed are his own.

Ahead of this 70th anniversary General Debate, Mr. Ban will present his annual report on the work of the Organization.

He is due to tell leaders at a summit in New York that Mr Assad could remain temporarily in power at the head of a transitional government.