“And if that happens, there’s a chance of giving credibility back to this process”, Kerry said at a United Nations Security Council meeting on Syria.
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And the UN Security Council is due to hold a high-level meeting on Syria on Wednesday.
But US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted that the ceasefire was “not dead”, after a short meeting of the 23-nation International Syria Support Group in NY, where world leaders have gathered for the UN General Assembly.
Russian Federation and the United States negotiated the latest ceasefire plan, but Syria ended the truce on Monday following a US-led coalition strike on Syrian soldiers. He cited separate air strikes on Monday that killed four aid workers near Aleppo. Peace efforts have been hindered by attacks – most recently by a deadly raid on a medical team near Aleppo late on Tuesday.
The U.S. said Russian Federation was responsible for the airstrike, while Moscow vehemently denied any involvement.
An airstrike in northern Syria killed four medics responding to an earlier bombing raid, a relief group said Wednesday, as the United Nations announced it would resume aid deliveries suspended after an attack on a convoy two days ago that killed 20 people.
Konashenkov said Russian drones had followed the convoy until it successfully delivered its load, but had stopped surveillance after that.
Syrian state media and a TV station controlled by its Lebanese ally Hezbollah said the army had recaptured a fertiliser factory in the Ramousah area to the south-west of the city. “We are in a position to say that the convoy was attacked”, United Nations humanitarian spokesman Jens Laerke said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to address the situation in the Middle East during the 71st session of the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in NY, U.S., September 21, 2016.
Officials are now saying the US has gathering enough intelligence to say that it was Russian Federation, not Syria, that launched the airstrike.
“In order to bolster the military capabilities of the group we plan to add the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier to the group”, Shoigu said, without specifying a timeframe.
“I listened to my colleague from Russian Federation and I sort of felt like we’re in a parallel universe here”, Kerry said of Lavrov’s account of the war.
Syria’s Ambassador Bashar Jaafari railed against a “filthy propaganda war” waged by the United States and its allies, insisting his government is fighting “tens of thousands of terrorists” backed by foreign countries.
The International Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations says an airstrike Tuesday night in northern Syria leveled a medical triage point in rebel-held territory outside the contested city of Aleppo.
She was referring to the rebel-besieged towns of Foua and Kefraya in Idlib and government-blockaded Madaya and Zabadani near the Lebanese border. In the rebel-held neighbourhood of Sukkari, Abu Ahmad cleared rubble and shattered glass from his doorstep after bombardment demolished the six-storey building next door, killing his neighbours. Jaafari’s remarks had been “so full of untruths that I feel no need to say anything further”, she said.
But both Russian Federation and Syria have denied responsibility for the attack, with Moscow furious at the “unsubstantiated, hasty accusations” from the United States.
The Russian foreign ministry said the “unsubstantiated, hasty accusations” seemed created to “distract attention from the unusual “error” of coalition pilots”.
Kerry noted Russian Federation initially said the attack on the convoy was necessary as part of an alleged offensive against the al-Nusra Front.
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The White House is holding Russia responsible for an attack on an aid convoy delivering relief to an embattled area in Northwest Syria, whether it was Russian or Syrian aircraft that carried out the assault.
