"India is a very important country for us. Not only political, we have cultural and historical ties with India. India is the country of Mahatma Gandhi and that is why we want India to play an important role in the political process and in Geneva," Shaaban said.
Stating that the Syrian government wanted the unipolar system to end and a multi-polar system to work, she said that India was an important country and was entitled to be an important factor in a multipolar system.
"We are happy to see the foreign minister of China, the foreign minister of Russia and the foreign minister of India getting together. We are happy to see BRICS because these are important poles in a multi-polar system," the Syrian official said.
China, India and Russia had Nov 10 stressed the need to find a political solution to the Syrian crisis when the foreign ministers of the three countries met in New Delhi.
