US Secretary of State John Kerry (center) and British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Philip Anthony Hammond (second right) speak during a UN Security Council meeting on Syria at the United on Nations December 18, 2015.
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The text of a draft United Nations security council resolution on a Syrian peace process has been agreed by its five permanent members, diplomats have said.
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If the plan brings Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the table with the armed opposition, it will allow Russian and US-led forces to focus their firepower on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group.
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Russia, the USA and other members of the 15-member Security Council met Friday morning before a broader worldwide gathering including regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Like Russia, Iran has insisted publicly that Assad should only step down if he is voted out in an eventual election.
The resolution itself does not touch on this vital issue.
Foreign Minister Zarif says it is unclear which Syrian opposition groups should take part in negotiations.
For the first time, Kerry said, a political track has been agreed by Assad’s allies – Russian Federation and Iran – and the United States and its partners in Europe and the Middle East who support the Syrian opposition trying to overthrow him.
“We know that Daesh can never be allowed to gain control in Syria, so we have a global imperative here to deal with a terrorist entity but also to end the civil war”, he said.
“If the war is to end, it is imperative that the Syrian people agree on an alternative in terms of their governance”, he said.
There must be “guarantees on the departure of Bashar al-Assad”, he said. His successor Lakhdar Brahimi frequently beseeched the Council to do more and often apologised to the Syrian people for failing them.
During a break in the talks, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry breezed by reporters and said negotiations were “going well”.
– Requests that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, “convene representatives of the Syrian government and the opposition to engage in formal negotiations on a political transition process on an urgent basis, with a target of early January 2016”. The plan says nothing about Assad’s future but says that “free and fair elections would be held pursuant to the new constitution within 18 months”.
More than 200,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict started, and around half of the country’s population has been displaced.
In fact, Michele adds, Russia’s foreign minister is trying to shape the negotiations by calling for a list of which rebel groups in Syria are terrorists and which can participate in negotiations with the Assad regime. But it does not include the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, or Islamic State, among the strongest opponents of Assad.
“The initial work has been done”.
Worldwide attempts to end the war in Syria were facing a number of obstacles on Friday, with rebels refusing talks and no agreement on which groups should be placed on an official “terrorist” list, hours before the UN Security Council was due to discuss a resolution setting out a timetable for peace.
And it demanded that Russian Federation halt its own air strikes as part of that truce.
Kerry also explained that talks between the Syrian opposition and government aimed at reaching agreement on a unity government were not likely to start before mid-January.
Hijab is the coordinator of the opposition team that will negotiate with the Syrian government. I was packing my luggage; I had to leave, he told a Dutch television station on Thursday. “I had to leave, but now I can stay”, he joked.
The document, approved by the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom, endorses an global roadmap for a peace process in the war-torn country.
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The European Union, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Arab League were also represented.
