His comments come the day after the US-led coalition fighting ISIS admitted it struck Syrian forces rather than a terror target. The Russian air force has been carrying out strikes across Syria to bolster President Bashar Assad’s forces for almost a year, and the two militaries work in close coordination.
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Australia also participated in the strikes and the Australian Department of Defence offered its condolences to the families of Syrian soldiers killed or wounded in the incident.
Power also said that the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman needs to be embarrassed for the statement that was issued after the airstrike, which claimed that the U.S. is coordinating with ISIS.
“We are at a new stage that requires making the decision to embrace reconciliation”, Diab said in a statement carried by the state news agency, SANA.
In New York, the UN Security Council cancelled an urgent meeting that had been called to discuss whether to endorse the ceasefire, billed as the “last chance” to end the five-year war that has killed 300,000 people. Otherwise the implementation of the entire package of the U.S. Churkin said Russian Federation had no “specific evidence” of the United States colluding with Islamic State militants.
Iran, another close ally of Syria’s government, also condemned the US raid, saying it violated Syria’s sovereignty and “showed that terrorist groups enjoy USA support in Syria”.
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said in an emailed statement to the AP news agency that both “terrorists and the opposition” are using the truce to “boost their forces and prepare for renewed hostilities”.
Iran’s official IRNA news agency on Sunday quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi as saying the move violated Syria’s sovereignty and “showed that terrorist groups enjoy USA support in Syria”.
Syria’s army said the USA -led strikes, were “conclusive evidence” of US support for Islamic State, calling them “dangerous and blatant aggression”.
“We have to hold on to this accord and keep it alive at all costs so we need to get over the events of the last few hours”, Ayrault told reporters at a ceremony at the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks in NY.
“We must not forget that it is first of all the (Syrian) regime, and it is always the regime, which has jeopardized the US-Russian ceasefire”, said Ayrault in NY.
Putin, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said on Saturday he remained “positive” about the truce, but lashed out at rebels.
The U.S. military said the coalition stopped the attacks against what it believed to be Islamic State positions in northeast Syria after Russian Federation informed it that Syrian forces may have been hit.
“We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State”. Samantha Power, the USA ambassador to the United Nations, lashed out at Russian Federation for requesting an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Saturday night, calling the request a “stunt”. Russia’s United Nations representative Vitaly Churkin said Russian Federation had no “specific evidence” of the US colluding with Islamic State militants. Government areas have been relying on airlifted aid.
The group says it is not possible to identify who was behind the air strikes.
Firefighters extinguish a fire following an airstrike in the rebel-held area of Douma, outskirts of Damascus.
The ceasefire’s co-sponsors, Russian Federation and the United States, have traded accusations over its fraying, with relations strained even further after the US-led raid killed scores of Syrian soldiers on Saturday.
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The fragile cease-fire in Syria appeared to be unraveling Sunday as rebel positions in Aleppo came under aerial attack Sunday, killing at least eight people, as world leaders gathered in NY for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
