Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem (C) leads his delegation at the opening of the Geneva-2 peace conference in Montreux January 22, 2014. REUTERS/ Jamal Saidi
PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Thursday that Russian steps to push Syrian peace talks should be within the framework of United Nations efforts, which Paris said were the only appropriate forum to discuss a political solution to the civil war.
Having intervened decisively in the Syrian war in 2015 in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia now hopes to build on the collapse of Islamic State to launch a political process to end the six-year-old conflict.
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