Hollande calls for unity, global response to IS threats
 

Paris, Sep 15 (IANS/EFE) French President François Hollande said Monday that the fight against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group required a global response which must come from the Iraqis themselves, while demanding the unity and support of the international community. At the opening of a conference in Paris aimed at coordinating aid and action against the terrorist organisation, the French president said that "there is ** time to lose" to a greater threat "to Iraq, the Middle East and the rest of world". Hollande said the answer must be first humanitarian and then political, and this should include looking for a lasting solution in Syria, "in the place where the organisation was born". For France, those were the forces of the democratic opposition in Syria fighting President Bashar al-Assad's regime, Hollande added at the conference that brought together representatives of 24 countries and the Arab League, the UN and the European Union.

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