“They have to reign in, they have to convince their own partners that this is serious”.
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Staffan de Mistura, the UN Syria envoy, called the meeting “long, painful, difficult, and disappointing”. The two sides have also blamed each other since the attack.
We cant just walk out of this room and say we go to back to ceasefire everyone knows wont work.
An army officer in Aleppo confirmed that the ground assault had yet to begin.
The Russian military spokesman said that the U.S. and its allies in the coalition were making the allegations against Moscow to distract attention from a deadly strike against Syrian regime forces over the weekend.
At least 15 Aleppo neighbourhoods were targeted, Al Jazeera’s Amr al-Halabi reported from the city, adding that the relentless bombardment was hampering the ability of rescue workers to help civilians caught up in the fighting.
– On whether the government has besieged civilians in eastern Aleppo: “If there’s really a siege around the city of Aleppo, people would have been dead by now”.
First a United States-led airstrike on Saturday, meant to hit Islamic State positions, instead killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers.
Diplomats believe the US-Russian Geneva process is the only available hope to end the five-year conflict, but Moscow and Washington have fallen out spectacularly.
He called it a last chance to salvage a collapsing ceasefire and find a way “out of the carnage”.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has met his Russian counterpart for the first time to discuss the “unacceptable” attack on an aid convoy in Syria.
“I listened to my colleague from Russian Federation and felt a little bit like we are in a parallel universe”, Kerry declared on Wednesday after Lavrov tried to blame the rebels.
Before wrapping his speech Wednesday, Kerry called on the global community to take a stand against Russia, Syria and any other nation that is helping to “sabotage” the delicate peace process. How can we prevent the food and the medical aid from reaching that area and we cannot stop the armaments form reaching that area, which is not logical?. The UN has said that aid trucks will resume as soon as possible.
“We have four centres in eastern Aleppo”.
In New York on Tuesday, Russian and USA diplomats insisted that the Syrian cease-fire, which went into effect nine days ago, was not dead, despite indications of soaring violence.
The United Nations suspended aid shipments.
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Separately, a Syrian warplane has crashed north of Damascus, the UK-based Syrian Observatory says.
