He also said the Syrian conflict was a outcome of foreign military action in Iraq and Syria and called for the strike on the convoy to be investigated.
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A wide view of the Security Council high-level meeting on the situation in Syria, September 21, 2016.
The UN, Red Cross and other humanitarian agencies had hoped that a ceasefire agreed earlier this month would allow them to get life-saving supplies to more than a million Syrian civilians. Each has blamed the other for violations.
The U.N. Security Council has taken up Syria’s civil war as a temporary truce unravels and global tensions rise.
The Obama administration has not supported punitive strikes against the Assad regime for its atrocities against civilians, which would amount to a major USA escalation in the conflict.
The truce deal brokered by Moscow and Washington fell apart earlier this week, ushering in a surge of fighting on all major fronts of Syria’s five-year civil war. “Supposedly we all want the same goal. a secular united Syria. but we are all proving to be woefully inadequate to come to the table and have that discussion”. “I’ve heard that again and again, but we are proving woefully inadequate in. making that happen”.
Despite the ceasefire being clearly over, some U.S. officials have suggested it isn’t over until they say it is.
He spoke as a U.S.
“The worldwide community has still not provided any guarantees that if the armed opposition factions reorganized along these lines, that the Assad regime and its allies won’t take advantage of the situation to advance militarily on the ground”, according to Basma Kodmani, a member of the Syrian opposition High Negotiation Committee who is now in NY.
U.S. officials believe Russian aircraft were responsible for the strike, but Moscow has denied involvement and the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday a U.S. Predator drone was in the area when the convoy was attacked. Russian Federation has denied US claims that it was responsible, but Kerry focused on its shifting explanation of what might have happened. Then, a Russian ambassador said forces were targeting another area.
Kerry pressed Russian Federation to assume responsibility for the attack, noting that the United States had owned up immediately to its role in the mistaken strike on Syrian forces.
Their face-to-face meeting in NY was their first since Mr Johnson was appointed, and came days after talks between Theresa May and Moscow over Russian president Vladimir Putin’s support for Bashar Assad’s Syrian regime. “The evening of September 19 in the sky over that area at a height of 3600 metres and moving at a speed of 200 kilometres per hour there was an attack drone from the worldwide coalition”, Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov said. “Only its owners know why the drone was in the area at the right time and what kind of tasks it was pursuing there”. He pointed out that the attack on the convoy coincided with a “rebel” offensive in the same area.
Like Syria, Russia has denied carrying out the convoy bombing.
Kerry’s words came after Lavrov’s own barbs, underscoring a breakdown in trust since the pair sealed the cease-fire agreement and potential U.S.
The aim of the ceasefire deal between the United States and Russian Federation, which took effect on September 12, is to facilitate aid access to besieged areas and allow the pair to jointly target Islamic State jihadists.
First a United States-led airstrike on Saturday, meant to hit Islamic State positions, instead killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers.
Moscow meanwhile said it is dispatching its flagship aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, to bolster its forces in the eastern Mediterranean off Syria.
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The International Syrian Contact Group includes both the U.S. and Russian Federation.
