German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said there was “some movement” in the talks on Syria, adding that one goal of the NY meetings was to clarify the timeline for peace talks between the government and opposition.
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The UN Security Council is expected to later vote on a text backing the broad plan for a truce and negotiations.
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The United States and its regional allies – especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey – have been supporting the terrorists operating inside Syria since the beginning of the crisis.
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The meeting follows days of diplomatic maneuvering in a bid to narrow the gaps between key outside stakeholders.
U.N. Security Council members have reached agreement on a resolution they plan to adopt on Friday endorsing the way forward on a possible end to Syria’s civil war, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said.
Foreign ministers from 17 countries met for more than five hours on how to implement their call in Vienna last month for a cease-fire and the start of negotiations between the government and opposition in early January.
This diplomatic balancing act aims to keep both Moscow and Riyadh on board as the group struggles to cobble together peace talks.
He was referring to global talks on Syria’s future held that same year in Switzerland.
But several questions still hang over the process.
Ghadbian also said a comprehensive solution to the conflict requires “the removal of all foreign troops from Syria, all of them”, including Russian Federation, which began airstrikes there in September.
And – while the State Department insists there is no change in its policy that Assad has lost all legitimacy to lead Syria – Washington has noticeably toned down calls for him to step down.
But Syria’s main opposition group expressed doubts that the push for a January 1 deadline for starting peace talks among Syrian parties was “too ambitious”.
But Zarif on Thursday suggested that this question was still in dispute. “The opposition should be serious and it should be inclusive”. United Nations diplomats said a key stumbling block was how to address the issue of the transitional government.
Among the ISSG goals is a plan to draft a terrorist list, which would identify groups that would be barred from the proposed cease-fire, as well as a Syrian opposition group list that would identify participants in the political dialogue with the Syrian government.
“So the big result for the afternoon session is obviously this resolution, and the secretary remains confident that we can get there”, Kirby said Thursday.
Russian Federation and the United States are leading the talks, but Russia’s ambassador to the U.N. told reporters that he sees attempts to “undercut” the communiques that have been agreed upon in the Syria discussions so far.
But the politics are a bit more complicated than that, in large part because American Republicans have repeatedly praised Putin in recent years, singling him out as the kind of world leader they respect and admire.
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The incident, which occurred on November 24, has prompted Moscow to impose retaliatory economic sanctions on Turkey and has triggered a furious response from President Vladimir Putin who has repeatedly accused Ankara of “stabbing Russian Federation in the back”. “So, that’s why it will drag on”, Assad told the Dutch channel NPO2.
