The expansion of the ISIL terrorist group is a major threat to international stability, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed

The expansion of the ISIL terrorist group is a major threat to international stability, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed, warning against manipulating extremist organizations in order to achieve one’s political objectives.

According to the Russian foreign minister, dividing terrorists into "moderate" and "radical" groups and "attempting to manipulate extremist groups in order to achieve one’s own political objectives" will not help in the fight against terrorism.

"The expanding space of chaos that has already engulfed Iraq, Libya, Syria, has extended the unprecedented, in scope, terrorist threat the embodiment of which is ISIL. The expansion of ISIL is a key challenge to international stability," Lavrov said on Thursday at the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA).

Lavrov stressed that special attention must be paid to blocking the terrorists’ illegal trade in drugs, natural resources and objects of cultural and historic value.

"We call for using existing multilateral mechanisms to exert pressure on states that are not fulfilling the decision of the UN Security Council to cut off the channels of financing of ISIL."

On the other hand, Lavrov said Russia supposes that it is absolutely necessary to invite Kurds to the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva, stressing his country's rejection to the warnings issued in this regard.