...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...confirmed plans to create a working party with Israel and other countries to normalise the situation in Syria once the last pockets of terrorist resistance have been cleared. He made the comment in Moscow on Thursday.
"The idea is to create a structure that includes all involved parties," he said.
"It should deal with the final normalising [of the situation] after crushing the final remnants of terrorism. This is also connected with the complete military withdrawal from the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic as well as with the reconstruction of the Syrian state as well as the preservation of its territorial integrity," he added.
Putin also expressed confidence that the last pockets of resistance in Syria will be cleared soon.
The announcement comes following Putin’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu where the two leaders discussed how to avoid military festivities in Syria, where Israel is taking military action against Iran.