The council will meet in NY on Friday at 4pm (9pm GMT) and is expected to accept the text, which will set out a timetable for talks between the Syrian government and opposition, with a start date of early January.
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He says that his administration is an example of tolerance that contrasts with the behaviour of militants, including the Islamic State group that has seized large swathes of the war-torn country.
UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan took part in the meeting, presided over by the US Secretary of State John Kerry. Also in question is Assad’s fate.
“Here is affirmation of the fundamental principles of the political settlement, namely that Syria should remain unified, secular, pluri-religious and pluri-ethnic, comfortable and safe for all groups of its people and only the Syrian people themselves can define its future”, said Lavrov.
It also calls upon all countries to use their good offices with the Syrian government and the Syrian opposition as well to proceed with the peace process and confidence-building measures and the steps leading to a ceasefire.
The UN Security Council on Friday adopted [press release] a new resolution which outlines a process to work for peace within Syria.
This is the only way to settle the conflict in Syria, outline a Syrian constitution and hold Syrian elections under United Nations supervision, the Egyptian top diplomat said.
It also requests that United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon convene representatives of the Syrian government and opposition “to engage in formal negotiations on a political transition process on an urgent basis, with a target of early January 2016 for the initiation of talks”.
It was Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov who first burst the optimism bubble when he told a news conference following the vote that, “I am not too optimistic over what has been achieved today”. Ceasefire calls are important, and all Syrian rivals should lay down their arms, the foreign minister said.
Agreement on a resolution came after a meeting of the so-called International Syria Support Group at New York’s Palace Hotel.
“How could this man unite a people that he has in part massacred?”
Mr Hammond, who is representing Britain in NY, said that progress could depend on Russian Federation assessing that the protection of Assad is not a “strategic objective”.
The first two rounds of talks were held in Vienna where world powers agreed on a timeline that would let Syrian factions form a transitional governing body in six months and to hold UN-supervised national elections within 18 months.
Fellow coalition member Samir Nashar said bombing by the regime and Russian Federation must stop for there to be a sustainable ceasefire.
Global talks on Syria taking place at the United Nations in NY could lead to the tabling of a Security Council resolution on the transition to a new government in the Middle Eastern state by the end of the day.
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“There must be safeguards regarding the exit of Bashar al-Assad”, declared Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
