An initiative by Russian Federation and the United States to bring Bashar Al-Assad’s regime to a peace talk with the opposition forces has been supported unanimously by the United Nations Security Council in NY on Friday.
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The council’s adoption of a resolution Friday backing the plan comes amid world powers’ growing sense that the top priority in Syria should be the defeat of the Islamic State group, which has exploited the country’s years of chaos and created a base from which it promotes deadly attacks overseas.
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Foreign ministers adopted the U.S.-drafted resolution late Friday, after a daylong meeting of the International Syria Support Group in NY.
Assad has portrayed himself in recent interviews with the Western media as a protector of Syria’s minorities, saying his rule was an example of religious tolerance in a country threatened by Islamist insurgents who have taken swathes of territory and seek to impose their version of strict Islam.
Jordan’s Foreign Minister on Friday presented a draft list of “terrorist” groups before the International Syria Support Group, which the parties will agree to exclude from the peace talks.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov listens during a press conference after a meeting in the U.N. Security Council of foreign ministers for a vote concerning Syria, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 at U.N. headquarters.
The talks come a day after security council finance ministers, including Chancellor George Osborne, agreed a resolution to step up efforts to cut off all sources of funding for the Islamic State (IS) terror group – also known as Isil, Isis or Daesh – in Syria and Iraq.
It also requests that Ban report back to the Security Council on the implementation of the resolution, “including on progress of the UN-facilitated political process”, within 60 days.
Diplomats said the main problem in the negotiations on the resolution involved Russian and Iranian concerns about how to refer to a bloc of opposition groups that would join United Nations.-led peace talks with the Syrian government set to begin in January.
It said “the only sustainable solution to the current crisis in Syria is through an inclusive and Syrian-led political process that meets the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people”. “Without a cease-fire, peace talks can not continue to produce results”, he said.
A peace plan agreed to last month by 20 nations meeting in Vienna sets a January 1 deadline for the start of negotiations between Assad’s government and opposition groups.
He also called for the end to allied air strikes and lifting on the siege on rebel controlled areas as “confidence building measures”.
The other group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the airstrikes killed 14 people.
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Assad has been making rare public appearances as the fighting around the country intensifies and rebels outside Damascus have been hitting the city with mortar shells.
