United States President Barack Obama on Friday reaffirmed U.S. insistence that Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad step down, warning there can be no peace in Syria without a legitimate government.
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Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to build up the diplomatic momentum to end the brutal war in Syria and focus the world on countering ISIS.
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Washington and UN Syrian envoy Staffan de Mistura want Assad’s regime and the armed groups ranged against him to send delegates to peace talks in January.
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Aside from hosts Russian Federation and the United States, the ISSG represents Britain, the UAE, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, China, Egypt, Germany, France, Iran, Iraq and Italy.
Opposition groups met in Saudi Arabia earlier this month, ruling out any continuation of Assad’s rule, but John Kerry, US secretary of state, has said his removal is not a precondition for talks.
“We have emphasised from the beginning that for this to work it has to be implemented by the men and women of Syria and can not be opposed from the outside”, Kerry said.
However he likewise said that demanding Mr Assad’s instant departure was “prolonging the war”.
“This is a clear response to attempts to impose a solution from outside on Syrians on any issues including those regarding its president”.
The Riyadh conference agreed to set up a 34-member secretariat to supervise peace talks, and that committee will also select the opposition’s negotiating team.
Here’s UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
But the United Nations representative for the main Syrian opposition group – the Syrian National Coalition – said the deadline was “too ambitious a timetable”.
In it, the UNSC “expresses its support for free and fair elections under the new Constitution that should be held within an 18-month period and organized under the supervision of the United Nations, being a subject to the principles of public administration”. Although the resolution states that elections should take place within the next 18 months, it does not give any clue about a possible candidacy or withdrawal from the Syrian president.
The resolution calls the transition Syrian-led and Syrian-owned, stressing that the “Syrian people will decide the future of Syria”.
A UN draft resolution was to be presented at the UN Security Council later in the day that calls for Syrian peace talks to begin in early January.
The draft also emphasizes that the truce “will not apply to offensive or defensive actions” against militant groups operating in the Arab country.
But an increasingly bloodied Russian Federation – now a target of ISIS – and growing US urgency in resolving the 5-year-old conflict whose chaos only strengthens the terror group, seems to provide some common ground for finding a resolution to the conflict. Lavrov warned against efforts to “divide terrorists among good and bad ones”.
Before the meetings, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that the longer the peace talks drag on without result the more risky they become.
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“There has been no agreement on two important aspects; one is the opposition groups and the composition of the opposition groups, and second is the list of terrorist organisations”, Zarif said in NY.
