Moallem told the UN General Assembly that he understood the talks, proposed by UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, to be "mainly to exchange ideas" and non-binding.
"I would like to announce here that Syria agrees to participate in the four brainstorming committees of experts proposed by the special envoy Staffan de Mistura," said Muallem.
De Mistura traveled to Syria last month to win
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
's support for the new plan, the latest bid by the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
to lay the groundwork for peace after two failed attempt
Curses! Foiled again!
s.
The four working groups will tackle safety and protection, political and legal affairs, the military and counter-terrorism, and reconstruction.
The foreign minister made clear that fighting the so-called 'Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group was the government's immediate focus and declared that the "Syrian army is capable of cleansing the country of those terrorists."
"Syria cannot implement any democratic political measures related to elections, a constitution or the like, while terrorism is striking at home," he said.