When it signed the most recent cease-fire agreement, Kerry said, Russian Federation said that Assad “would live by the cessation of hostilities and would accept the idea of not flying over agreed-upon areas”.
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“How can people go sit at a table with a regime that bombs hospital and drops chlorine gas again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and acts with impunity?”
“New Zealand has convened today’s high level meeting on Syria for one simple reason”, Mr Key told the Security Council. “What kind of credibility do you have?”
“The trucks, food and medicine just spontaneously combusted?”
That plan, which the Pentagon has appeared wary of, exposes a fundamental flaw: U.S. promises of cooperation with Russian Federation have raised suspicion among the opposition, which sees Washington as no longer acting in its interests.
The attack on the aid convoy, which the Syrian Red Crescent said killed the head of its local office and around 20 other people, brought furious global condemnation. “The ceasefire is over, the humanitarian access is not guaranteed and the fighting has resumed”. At one point, Kerry said listening to his Russian counterpart was like hearing about a “parallel universe”.
In a tweet posted after his face-to-face meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Johnson said “only #Russia can bring #Syria conflict suffering to swift end”. Jaafari’s remarks had been “so full of untruths that I feel no need to say anything further”, she said.
“Twenty aid workers were killed in an outrageous, sustained, two-hour attack directed at a fully authorized humanitarian mission near Aleppo – fully authorized”.
Syrian Red Crescent aid convoy of 31 trucks move towards delivering to the western rural side of Aleppo.
Tensions between the United States and Russian Federation escalated over a September 17 attack by the US -led coalition against Islamic State that killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in the eastern Deir al-Zor province.
For Iran, Assad has offered Syria as a crucial transit route to fund its Hezbollah proxies and serves as a bulwark against the sort of Sunni Islam propagated by Saudi Arabia. He called for the U.N.to expand its terrorism list to include groups at the fringes of a USA -backed rebel umbrella group and called Washington’s errant strike an “outrageous violation”.
Last week, Moscow and Washington brokered a cease-fire in Syria, which is now teetering on the brink amid renewed fighting and an attack on a humanitarian convoy. -Russian military partnership against the Islamic State and al-Qaida.
But the deal, probably the final hope of reaching a settlement on Syria before the administration of President Barack Obama leaves office, is following the path of all previous peace efforts in Syria: still being touted by diplomats long after the warring parties appeared to have abandoned it.
“It raises a profound doubt about whether Russian Federation and the Assad regime can or will live up to the obligations that they agreed to in Geneva”, Kerry added.
Lavrov was more direct in laying out what he presented as a series off truce violations by USA -backed rebels groups near the northern city of Aleppo. It was a not-so-subtle finger pointed at Washington.
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The New Zealand initiated Security Council meeting on Syria has ended without any new agreement on a way forward, although John Key believes a resolution built around the recent ceasefire is still possible in time.
