The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution for an worldwide road map for a peace process in Syria on Friday.
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The plan was negotiated in Vienna and would convene talks between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and opposition groups.
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John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, said: “There are still some issues that we’re trying to work through, and one of them is the percentage of the Russian strikes that are actually going after the opposition, versus Daesh (ISIL)”.
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“We often hear the argument that without resolving the Assad question, it is impossible to truly co-ordinate in the fight against terrorism”, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Lavrov added that it would be possible to reach an agreement on a unity government for Syria within six months.
“There have to be some confidence building measures first, there have to be steps of the process of political change before we will, in practice, be able to deliver that ceasefire”.
Assad’s ally Iran, on the other hand, has refused talks with any group it considers terrorist including the Ahrar al-Sham faction, which it describes as a terrorist organisation.
Coinciding with this, the supreme negotiating body for Syrian opposition forces concluded its meetings in Riyadh yesterday by determining conditions which include releasing detainees and lifting sieges on cities before any negotiations with the regime.
Asked about a definition of what constitutes a terrorist organization, Shoukry said that the Syria Support Group (SSG) has been seeking to make a list of terrorist organizations that should be excluded.
In a statement, Philip Hammond said the resolution “gives us a timetable and a clear way forward”.
The conflict in Syria has killed upwards of 300,000 people and displaced millions more, creating the world’s worst refugee crisis since the second world war. “We have more military means and we will use them if we have to”.
It also endorsed the continued battle to defeat militants from the Islamic State group who have seized large swaths of both Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
The peace plan agreed to in Vienna last month by 17 nations as well as the U.N., European Union, Arab League and Organization of Islamic Cooperation sets a January 1 deadline for the start of negotiations between Assad’s government and opposition groups.
Western diplomats say that Iran will have to move further towards Russia’s position and fully abandon Assad if there is to be a viable diplomatic solution that ends the war in Syria.
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The remaining differences among the Council members concern the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which the resolution does not address.
