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Gathered my national security forces, and it had been a year to review where we had made progress, and what worked and what had not and put together a plan to accelerate and advance the pressure that we can place on isil. and we intend to execute on those plans, but we also think that as francois said, there is new openness on the part of other coalition members to help resource and provide ad diditio assistance both to the coalition as a whole, and to the local forces on the ground. with respec...

Get together and enable us to implement coordination, cooperation in all actions so that we can act on daesh and the networks that they can use. it is that strength that will enable us to succeed. question from bfm tv. >> reporter: both of you today have talked about coordination, cooperation against daesh. does it mean the single operation you mentioned last week, president hollande is gone, that it is inconceivable to have the americans and russians work together under single command? and bash...

Progress, what worked, what did not, and had put together a plan to accelerate in advance the pressure that we can place on isil. and we intend to execute on those plans but we also think as francois said that there may be new openness on the part of other coalition members to help resource and provide additional assistance, both to the coalition as a whole and to local forces on the ground. with respect to mr. assad, i think weve got to let the vienna process play itself out. it is our best opp...

So it is all of that, that must get together, and enable us to implement coordination, cooperation in our actions so that we can act on the source daesh and the networks they can use. it is that strength that will enable us to succeed. questions from the bfm tv. >> translator: both of you have talked about coordination and cooperation against daesh, and does it mean that the single coalition that you mentioned last week, president hollande that it is kconceivable to have the americans and the ru...

With all of the countries even though they do not necessarily have the same stance, turkey, iran, gulf countries, france, united states and of course, all of those who are meant to find a solution. we must work on that transition. a transition where bashar al assad plays no role because hes been the problem so he cannot be the solution. >> just to comment very quickly. we have got a coalition. of 65 countries who have been active in pushing back against isil for quite some time. france has been ...

As soon as we have a framework for political transition, potentially a new constitution, elections, it in that context that we can start to look at mr. assad choosing not the run and potentially seeing a new syria emerge. but it is going to be hard. and we should not be under any illusions. syria has broken down. it began to break down the moment that mr. assad started to killing indiscriminantly his own people. isil was able to move into the raqqah in part because of a thorough rejection on the...

Today. i mentioned the "charles de gaulle" air carrier in the eastern mediterranean, and as a matter of fact, there are also some russian forces, and therefore i agree with president putin that we must share our intelligence so that we can act in coordination, and we must not contradict ourselves, and it is already the case, and we will continue to do so. >>. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: mr. president, the americans have special forces in syria, and e beyond the words and what is...

Degaulle" aircraft carrier which is in the east of the mediterranean now. as a matter of fact, there are also some russian forces and therefore i agreed with president putin that we must share intelligence so that we can act in coordination. we must not contradict ourselves and its already the case and we will continue to do so. >> translator: mr. president, the americans have some special forces in syria. beyond the words and beyond what is happening, are you going to send some special forces a...

Sense. as soon as we have a framework for political transition potentially a new constitution, elections, i think its in that context that we can start looking at mr. assad choosing not to run and potentially seeing a new syria emerge. but its going to be hard. we should not be under any illusions. syria has broken down. it began to break down the moment that mr. assad started killing indiscriminately his own people. isil was able to move into raqqah in part because of a thorough rejection on th...

Clear on this, they will not get in the same room with the government side until the government says that bashar al assad cannot be part of this transitional government. i mean, this already seems like a massive impasse here, christine. >> in terms of progress, nic, expectations are so low. what can we hope to come away from, if anything, from this conference? >> reporter: this is a great question. ive been trying get a clear answer from a number of people. i mean, look, this is what diplomats a...