“In particular, a support was expressed to efforts of two target groups: for ceasefire and humanitarian aspects”, the Kremlin said. These were suspended earlier this month in Geneva before they got off the ground.
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Groups who are being bombed, Kerry said, will be disinclined to talk.
“It is an indication of the direction of coming operations toward Raqqa”.
Meanwhile Sunday, Turkey shelled positions held by a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in northern Syria for a second day, drawing condemnation from the Syrian government, whose forces are advancing against insurgents in the same area under the cover of Russia’s airstrikes.
The Kremlin also said that Putin told Obama that he hopes authorities in Ukraine will “promptly fulfill their obligations” under what is known as the Minsk peace process to help end the conflict in eastern Ukraine between Kiev and Russia-backed separatists.
Speaking Sunday at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, U.S. Sen.
The complex, multi-sided civil war in Syria, raging since 2011, has drawn in most regional and global powers, caused the world’s worst humanitarian emergency and attracted recruits to Islamist militancy from around the world.
Foreign ministers from interested parties, including the US and Russian Federation, brokered an accord in Munich on Thursday night that called for a “cessation of hostilities” within a week and the delivery of aid.
“Heavy clashes are still taking place as rebels are trying to recapture al-Tamoura town”, he added. Mr. Assad has promised to “confront them”, which of course means that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hassan Nasrallah’s army are set to come into direct contact with Turkish and Saudi troops, setting the stage for an all-out sectarian war that will nearly invariably end up pitting North Atlantic Treaty Organisation against the Russians.
On Friday, Turkey’s foreign minister said Russian Federation was targeting schools and hospitals with its bombing, putting the blame squarely on Moscow for the wave of tens of thousands of displaced people who have arrived at the Turkish border over the past week. Regional Kurdish forces supported by Washington are also fighting Islamic State in Raqqa province.
“NATO’s policy with regard to Russian Federation has remained unfriendly and opaque”.
Mevlut Cavusoglu said Saudi Arabia was “ready to send both jets and troops” to Turkey’s Incirlik air base.
“France respects Russian Federation and its interests…”
However, Medvedev’s French counterpart, Manuel Valls, told the same conference: “To find the path to peace again, the Russian bombing of civilians has to stop”.
Medvedev rejected on Saturday the accusations as “just not true”.
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Medvedev said in an interview with Time Magazine he sees no reason why rebels running around with automatic weapons near Aleppo should receive any kind of immunity.
