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“It is more necessary than ever in the current circumstances to co-ordinate the international fight against terrorism,” Laurent Fabius said in Vienna at talks on ending the Syrian civil war.
“And one of the aims of the meeting today (Saturday) in Vienna is exactly to see concretely how we can further increase the international co-ordination in the struggle against Daesh,” Fabius told reporters, referring to the Islamic State jihadist group which has overrun swathes of Syria and Iraq.
He added that in spite of the attacks “international action by France will continue”.
Witnesses said that the gunmen who killed 127 people in Friday’s wave of attacks shouted “Allahu akbar” [“God is greatest”] and blamed France’s military intervention in Syria against Islamic State (IS) extremists.
The talks in Vienna involving about 20 countries and international organisations – but no Syrian representatives – aim at working out a roadmap to end the country’s bloody civil war after almost five years of combat.
But there are deep divisions, notably between Iran and Russia on one side, and Western and Arab nations on the other, on the future of President Bashar Assad and which opposition groups to back.
