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.
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Peace and stability in Syria are only possible if Bashar al-Assad leaves the political scene, the Turkish Foreign Minister said Saturday, APA reports quoting Anadolu agency.
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But Washington and Moscow remain split over the fate of Assad and which groups fighting in Syria should be designated “terrorists” and therefore excluded from negotiations.
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The Security Council met Friday after the latest round of talks by the International Syria Support Group, which gathered in NY to renew its push for peace.
Others around the table included the United States, key European nations, Saudi Arabia and top Syria allies Russian Federation and Iran.
Hailing the agreement as a “historic moment…to cut off Daesh financing”, Mr Osborne said: “We’ll choke off Daesh trade in oil, end extortion, stop sales of historic artefacts and take the fight to middlemen who trade in currency of evil”.
Kerry said Assad had “lost the ability to unite the country” but he also said that demanding Assad’s immediate departure was “prolonging the war”.
But experts nevertheless see a narrowing of differences between the major powers.
“Russia would not have voted for a resolution in which it would have been written that Assad needs to step down”.
The UN resolution calls for the UN to present the council with options for monitoring a ceasefire within one month.
“How could somebody bring together a whole people when he has massacred so many?”
The other group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the airstrikes killed 14 people.
Kerry said that there were still sharp disagreements between the ISSG parties, some of which sponsor armed factions on the ground, as to which groups should be banned.
The peace plan calls for talks between the Syrian government and opposition in early January, a transitional government within six months, and elections under United Nations supervision within 18 months.
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Ghadbian also said a comprehensive solution to the conflict requires “the removal of all foreign troops from Syria, all of them”, including Russian Federation, which began airstrikes there in September. One of the crucial problems to be resolved is to make a dinstinction and decision on which groups in Syria are terrorist organizations and which are the regular opposition.
