Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, May 24 said Moscow was ready to coordinate with a Kurdish-Arab alliance and the U.S.-led coalition in an assault on the IS group's Syrian bastion of Raqqa, World Bulletin reports.
"I say with all authority that we are ready for such coordination," Lavrov told journalists at a summit in Uzbekistany.
He was speaking before Kurdish-Arab forces announced that the assault had been launched, saying: "I cannot say how realistic the reports are that such actions have already started."
"Of course Raqqa is one of the goals of the anti-terrorist coalition, just as is Iraq's Mosul," Lavrov said, according to World Bulletin.
"We are convinced it would have been possible to more effectively and quickly liberate these populated areas if our militaries (Russian and U.S.) had started coordinating their actions much earlier," Lavrov said.
Lavrov said that Russia and the U.S. had agreed to coordinate military action in Syria in addition to exchanging information.
