“At one point we’re going to be asked to support in greater detail this plan, so to do that we will need to have all the information”.
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“No, to coordinate our activities against ISIL [Daesh] and Nusra”, Kerry told NPR radio station when asked if Washington and Moscow will coordinate all military activities in Syria.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, would each take steps to restart peace talks between the Assad regime and rebel groups aimed at achieving a political resolution to the conflict. “The trucks are ready and sealed, and the agreement is that once they move they will not be harassed and they will not be investigated and they will be moving along that road”, De Mistura said.
The United Nations has urged Syria’s government to “immediately” allow humanitarian aid into the country, after a fragile ceasefire was extended for 48 hours by Russian Federation and the United States. IS is not included in the US-Russia brokered truce and t he US-led coalition, Russia and the Syrian government have been carrying out air raids against the extremist group.
It says Thursday that government forces will not start pulling out until the rebels begin to do the same.
“I have been urging the Russian government to make sure that they exercise influence on the Syrian government, and also the American side to make sure that Syrian armed groups, they also fully co-operate”, Ban said.
He said 40 aid trucks are ready to move and the United Nations would prioritise the embattled, rebel-held eastern areas of the northern city of Aleppo.
United Nations aid trucks are waiting north of Aleppo in Turkey, but a Syrian security source told AFP the regime had yet to withdraw its forces from the key Castello Road running to the Turkish border.
However, a pair of lorries from Turkey managed to deliver food and children’s toys to the northern Syrian town of Jarabulus, the border town liberated two weeks by the Turkish army in a blitzkrieg offensive.
Earlier, Russian General Viktor Poznikhir, from the Russian military’s general staff, said the ultraconservative Ahrar Al-Sham group and some other opposition forces were responsible for numerous ceasefire violations.
One of Syria’s most powerful factions, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham’s battlefield alliance with other insurgent groups makes it hard for the United States to target them without the danger of inflicting harm on other opposition groups.
Medical facilities in rebel-held areas have been frequent targets for government bombings.
Areas of control around AleppoIf the truce holds.
The largest rebel group in Syria stated unequivocally Sunday it would not cooperate with the ceasefire agreement. Since the cease-fire went into effect, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported a marked decrease in violence, and other sources suggest the city is now safe enough for children to play in the streets.
A day earlier, the government said rebels had targeted the Castello road, the only remaining artery by which aid reaches the eastern, rebel section of Aleppo.
The al-Qaeda linked militants often fight alongside rebels against President Bashar al-Assad, adding a layer of complication to a ceasefire.
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“There’s an impression that the goal of Washington’s “curtain of words” is an intention to hide the fact that it is not fulfilling its obligations, above all the separation of units of the “moderate opposition” from the terrorists”, Konashenkov said.
