NYT: At U.N., Kerry Thanks Other Nations for Their Support in Fighting Islamic State
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/world/middleeast/at-un-kerry-thanks-other-nations-for-their-support-in-fighting-islamic-state.html?_r=0
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday expressed gratitude to a host of allies for bolstering the American-led campaign against terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria, singling out the French for airstrikes and Saudi clerics for condemning the Islamic State as an “order of Satan.”
Then in an overture at once generous and vague, he said, “The fact is there is a role for nearly every country in the world to play, including Iran.”
Mr. Kerry, who was drumming up world support at a special session of the Security Council for the battle against the Islamic State, did not say what role Iran could play, though he said earlier this week that its leaders had no place at an international meeting held in Paris to discuss the fight against the Islamic State.
