Summary
Russia is ready to work with the Western coalition fighting ISIS if its members respect Syria's sovereignty, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday.
Russia first launched airstrikes on Syria in September at the request of its long-standing ally President Bashar Assad, while a U.S.-led coalition of countries opposed to the Syrian strongman is conducting a separate air campaign against ISIS.
In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, French President Francois Hollande called this week for a broad anti-ISIS coalition, echoing an earlier call made by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the U.N. General Assembly in September.
Lavrov said he first detected a change in the Western position after Putin called for a broad coalition to fight the ISIS extremists in Syria and praised Hollande's decision to reach out to Putin.
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