Putin says information center in Baghdad opened for all parties concerned with antiterrorist struggle

UNITED NATIONS, September 29. /TASS/. Information Center that Russia, Iran, Syria, and Iraq have opened in Baghdad serves the interests of all the parties interested in struggle with terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said here on Monday as he spoke to reporters after talks with U.S. President Barack Obama. "We’ve already said this information center, which has been opened in Baghdad, is open for representatives of all the countries interested in struggle with terrorism," Putin said answering a question by TASS. A source in the military diplomatic community told TASS earlier Russia, Syria, Iran, and Iraq had established an information center in Baghdad for coordinating struggle with the Islamic State. "Successful operations of the center in the future will create conditions for transforming it into a coordination committee that will help plan operations and coordinate the actions of armed units of the four countries struggling with the Islamic State," the source said. Representatives of General Staffs of the Russian, Syrian, Iranian, and Iraqi Armed Forces will be delegated to the center in Baghdad. "Gathering, processing, summarizing, and analysis of current data on the situation in the Middle East in the context of struggle with the Islamic State, as well as the distribution of data to where required a prompt transmission of information to the General Staffs of the four countries will be the main functions of this organization," the source said. He indicated that the Army officers from Russia, Iran, Iraq, and Syria would chair the center on the basis of basis of rotation over every three months. Read more