The UN meeting was called after the United States said it held Russian Federation responsible for a deadly air strike on an aid convoy.
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“If we can agree on this kind of comprehensive approach, an integrated, multifaceted approach, the chances of a cessation of hostilities surviving and being successful will be better”, Lavrov said.
Anti-Assad rebels reportedly hold the area where the convoy was struck.
All aid convoys in Syria have been suspended after the attack on 18 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies.
Mr Laerke acknowledged that a full assessment had not been completed, but said the planned deliveries would take place now on a case-by-case basis.
The announcement – a potential contingency plan for the failure of the ceasefire – came as the UN Security Council tried to revive the ailing truce Wednesday.
He said that the attack on the aid convoy had dealt a harsh blow to peace efforts in Syria and had raised serious doubts about whether Russian Federation and the regime of Bashar Al Assad will comply with the obligations they agreed to in the latest talks in Geneva.
The Syrian government has also denied that it carried out the attack.
The two consecutive air strikes were “not a coincidence”, said UOSSM’s Dr. Zaydoun al-Zoubi.
The convoy was attacked hours after four US-led coalition airstrikes killed 60 Syrian soldiers at a base near Deir al Zor airport.
It said two nurses and two ambulance drivers were killed and another nurse was critically wounded. Washington said that strike was carried out by mistake with the intent of hitting Islamic State. Russian Federation and the U.S. would then share intelligence to coordinate air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and other hardline militants. His pleas crossed paths with another statement by Russia’s government, this time suggesting a USA coalition Predator drone was operating nearby when the convoy attack occurred.
Moscow has said neither Russian nor Syrian planes were involved in the bombing.
Overnight fighting hit the city of Aleppo in an area which has been encircled by government forces, aided by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias.
During his farewell address to the General Assembly, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, denounced the attack as “sickening, savage and apparently deliberate”.
A Russian military spokesman said a USA -led coalition Predator drone was in the area at the time.
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The “unsubstantiated, hasty accusations” seemed created to “distract attention from the unusual “error” of coalition pilots”, said the statement Tuesday, referring to the US-led coalition which struck a Syrian army position at the weekend killing dozens of soldiers. She was referring to the rebel-besieged towns of Foua and Kefraya in Idlib and government-blockaded Madaya and Zabadani near the Lebanese border.
