But Mr Johnson said “we shouldn’t give up” on the prospect of a resolution with negotiations in a “pretty critical state but it is not yet terminal and it can be revived”.
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It comes as the U.S. said it holds Russian Federation responsible for the attacks, which resulted in the deaths of 20 civilians.
Lavrov was more direct in laying out what he presented as a series off truce violations by US -backed rebels groups near the northern city of Aleppo.
“The United Nations has not come down on the side of saying they were air strikes, we just don’t know”. Twenty civilians were killed when the Syrian Red Crescent convoy was struck.
The Paris-based International Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations, known by its French initials UOSSM, said the attack Tuesday night leveled a medical triage point it operates in rebel-held territory outside the contested city of Aleppo.
All aid convoys in Syria are now suspended. The former Cold War foes and much of the worldwide community hailed the outcome, only to watch it unravel amid an upsurge in violence that even included an accidental US strike that killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers.
Kerry blamed Russian Federation, lambasting what he portrayed as a cynical response to an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy this week that killed 20 civilians and raised “profound doubt” about Russian Federation and Syria’s willingness to abide by the cease-fire. A medical aid group said four of its doctors were killed and a nurse critically wounded when an air strike hit a clinic in a village near Aleppo late Tuesday.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack was an air strike and if it was proved to be true, it could incriminate Russian Federation or Syria, because neither the opposition nor the Islamist groups have air power.
The escalation of violence against humanitarian workers has all but destroyed a cease-fire that took effect on September 12, and has stoked tensions between the truce’s architects, the US and Russian Federation, which have traded blame for running it into the ground.
Syrian government forces have been accused of carrying out “double tap” attacks throughout the 5-1/2 year war, placing paramedics and rescue workers in peril.
At talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in NY on Tuesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted that the Syrian ceasefire is “not dead”, despite the devastating strike on a humanitarian aid convoy. The group’s vice president, Dr. Oubaida Al Moufti, told The Associated Press that “the mobile medical team was hit while responding to an earlier airstrike targeting militants from the al-Qaida-linked Fatah al-Sham Front”. Moscow denied the accusation, while Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a “very thorough and impartial investigation” needs to be conducted to determine what had happened.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 11 civilians, including three children and three women, were killed Wednesday during air raids on several rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo. The Observatory said government jets subjected the town to heavy bombardment Wednesday morning.
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The militant group downed a government aircraft Sunday in the eastern Deir el-Zour province.
