State Department Spokesman John Kirby said Friday’s meeting seeks to “better define” what a political transition in Syria would look like and how a ceasefire could be implemented and monitored.
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It is hoped that if a cease-fire can be reached in Syria’s four-and-a-half-year-old civil war, then worldwide efforts can prioritize defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which controls sizable parts of eastern Syria and over the border in neighboring Iraq.
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But the diplomats remained divided over a resolution that the U.N. Security Council was expected to adopt just after the talks endorsing the process.
He said: “We have never closed ourselves off, whomever is elected there”.
“President Assad in our judgment… has lost the ability, the credibility to be able to unite the country and to provide the moral credibility to be able to govern it”. The resolution does not address Assad’s fate.
The deputy head of the Russian Aerospace Forces said: “Taking into account that the casing of the memory unit has sustained damage, there is a need for special equipment for use in the deciphering of the information”. “How could somebody bring together a whole people when he has massacred so many?” Fabius said. “The idea that he could once again stand for elections is unacceptable to us”.
British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said negotiations were still taking place on the Security Council resolution.
President Vladimir Putin yesterday said Russian Federation was prepared to face any economic situation as the country’s energy-dependent economy reels from lower oil prices.
The New York meeting is the third gather of the International Syria Support Group, which includes the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey.
The Kremlin has rejected the results of the meeting in Riyadh, saying it considered some of the rebels present terrorists.
Kerry said other countries would help Jordan draw up a final list.
But after a day of discussions with Assad’s key global backer, Kerry said the focus now is “not on our differences about what can or cannot be done immediately about Assad”.
The United States, which supports the Syrian opposition, wants a negotiated settlement based on the 2012 Geneva Communique, which calls for the formation of a transitional governing body.
That deadline is “too ambitious a timetable”, the United Nations representative for the Syrian National Coalition, the main Western-backed opposition group, told reporters Friday.
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Airstrikes in Syria reportedly carried out by Russian warplanes killed at least 14 people on Friday, according to activists, while President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance at a church in the capital, Damascus, attending preparations for Christmas Eve, his office said.
