The U.S. and French ambassadors to the United Nations both expressed optimism as well ahead of the Security Council meeting Friday afternoon.
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Senior worldwide envoys gather in New York Friday to seek United Nations backing for an ambitious United States and Russian plan to bring about a negotiated end to Syria’s brutal civil war.
Jordan is working on finalizing the list of terrorist vs. legitimate opposition forces.
Under a deal struck last month in Vienna, Syrian government and rebel negotiators would have six months to form a transitional government and 18 months to organize national elections.
The future of Assad is a key issue in efforts to end Syria’s almost five-year-old conflict that has left more than 250,000 dead and forced millions from their homes. He said some countries “sent 10, 15, 20 names” and others more.
I think it’s fair to say that this is not very reassuring about Trump’s instincts or approach to political power.
“We must realize the political process is going to go backward if we are not making progress”, he said.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the two most important issues are launching political negotiations and implementing a U.N.-monitored cease-fire.
Nevertheless, Kerry – who has already “agreed to disagree” with Moscow on Assad’s fate – said the vote would act as a springboard for forging ahead with peace talks. In recent months, the two countries have split on how to fight Islamic State in Syria. Council diplomats said they hoped agreement on a text could be clinched.
British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said negotiations were still taking place on the Security Council resolution.
Russian defense ministry reportedly said Friday that it had invited 14 countries to participate in analyzing the black box of the downed Su-24.
Trump continued, “I think our country does plenty of killing also, Joe”.
But it remains unclear whether Russian Federation and Iran are prepared to sit down with Syrian rebel groups amid accusations that they unrepresentative of the Syrian people. The U.S. says the Syrian leader has committed atrocities against his own people. “Then we can make headway with a cease-fire and political transition”, Ghadbian said.
Diplomats said the main problem in the negotiations on the resolution involved Russian and Iranian concerns about how to refer to a bloc of opposition groups that would join U.N.-led peace talks with the Syrian government set to begin in January.
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Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed.
