To this effect, Putin said, "Far from learning from others' mistakes, we keep on repeating them. It suffices to look at Middle East and North Africa...Rather than bringing about reform, foreign interference has resulted in...violence, poverty, and social disaster."
"The power vacuum [in the Middle East] … has started to be filled by militants and terrorists...We think it is an enormous mistake to not cooperate with the Syrian government and its armed forces. No one but Assad's armed forces and the Kurdish militias are truly fighting ISIS and other terrorists in Syria."
"On the basis of international law, we must create a genuinely broad international coalition against terrorism," he added. "Naturally, the modern countries are expected to play a key role in this coalition."
Putin then proposed that the world coordinate its actions to fight ISIS based on the principles in the UN charter. This was most likely a jab at the US, whose arming of some Syrian rebels Putin denounced as a violation of the charter in his interview with Charlie Rose that aired Sunday.
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