GENEVA (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko — A spokeswoman for UN Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura talking to Sputnik on Friday refused to comment on Saudi Arabia's decision to send ground troops to Syria.
On Thursday, the Saudi Defense Ministry said it stood ready to deploy ground troops to Syria to aid the US-led anti-Islamic State (ISIL), also known as Daesh, coalition.
"We are not commenting on each and every political development and trying to concentrate on the intra-Syrian talks," Khawla Mattar said Friday.
Riyadh has been a member of the US-led coalition that has been launching airstrikes against Daesh in Syria since September 2014, without the permission of Damascus or the United Nations. In December 2015, Saudi Arabia started its own Muslim 34-nation coalition to fight Islamic extremism.
Daesh is an extremist group, outlawed in a number of countries, including the United States and Russia.
