But he said that bringing peace to Syria was “almost an impossible task now”.
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Mr Key led a meeting of the UN’s Security Council last week, where he blasted the global community for failing to end the brutal war.
As Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari began addressing the council, Power, Rycroft and French UN Ambassador Francois Delattre walked out of the chamber.
The United Nations Security Council met on Sunday at the request of the United States, Britain and France to discuss the escalation of fighting in Aleppo following the announcement on Thursday of an offensive by the Syrian army to retake the city. “My appeal to this council today is the following: please develop a common course of action to enforce a cessation of hostilities in Syria”.
But she said the USA also believes it must do “everything in our power to find a way to halt the violence” and will “continue to look for any way possible to restore the cessation of hostilities”.
“The outrageous bombing of a humanitarian convoy, the Syrian regime’s public denunciation of the CoH, continuing reports that the regime is using chemical weapons, and the unacceptable ongoing regime offensive on eastern Aleppo, supported by Russian Federation, blatantly contradicts Russia’s claim that it supports a diplomatic resolution”, it said. Speaking at a U-N Security Council emergency meeting, Mistura had said he believes the situation can improve if world powers push for a new truce.
He added that the use of sophisticated weapons including incendiary devices may amount to war crimes. “These bombs are not busting bunkers, they are demolishing ordinary people looking for any last refuge of safety”, Ban said.
Ban urged all parties involved to “work harder for an end to the nightmare”.
The collapse of the agreement and renewed fighting dashed the hopes of Syrians longing for peace. He said Russia’s air force may have deliberately targeted the civilian convoy.
“I just need to explain what working with our American colleagues is like”, he said, telling the 15-member council that Washington had failed to rein in violence by the rebel forces it backs in Syria. The U.N. estimates 600,000 Syrians are trapped in different sieges.
Home to an estimated 275,000 people, east Aleppo’s rebel-held neighbourhoods have been under near-continuous siege since government troops encircled the area in mid-July.
Air strikes were continuing on the eastern neighbourhoods yesterday, the Observatory said, with at least 25 civilians, including two children, killed since dawn.
Hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties and the toll is expected to rise.
Hospitals were overwhelmed with casualties with medical workers expecting numerous wounded to die from a lack of treatment.
One hospital told the charity that 43% of the injured they treated on Saturday were children, and a Syrian ambulance crew said more than 50% they picked up in the past 48 hours were children.
De Mistura said U.S.
“The burden is on Russian Federation to prove it is willing and able to take extraordinary steps to salvage diplomatic efforts to restore a cessation of hostilities, allow unfettered humanitarian assistance and create the conditions necessary for the resumption of United Nations -led talks about a political transition”, the statement said. It said militant groups “did not commit to a single element” of the truce, the second attempt this year by Russian Federation and the USA to bring an end to the Syrian crisis that started in March 2011.
Britain’s United Nations ambassador, Matthew Rycroft, said the US and Russia’s attempt to create peace in Syria is “very, very near the end of its life”.
Russian Federation had denied responsibility for that attack, blaming a U.S.
Russian Federation had deployed more military resources into the Syrian war than the United States, for whom the conflict was less of a strategic consideration, giving Russian Federation and its Syrian ally the upper hand on the battlefield, he said. “That is a war crime”, Johnson said.
Britain, France and the United States have called an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council Sunday morning (11 a.m. EDT – 1500 UTC) to address the crisis.
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Talking to the BBC’s Andrew Marr, Johnson said Putin’s regime not only “handed Assad the revolver” but in some instances is “actually firing the revolver”.
