Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the council that Syria was “in ruins”, singling out besieged areas where “thousands of people have been forced to live on grass and weeds”, which he called “outrageous”.
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It says it should establish “credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance” followed within 18 months by UN-supervised “free and fair elections” with a parallel effort to secure a ceasefire. Moscow, meanwhile, has been bolstering Assad with airstrikes ostensibly aimed at ISIS but more often, according to the Pentagon, targeting other opposition fighters, including ones supported by Washington.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he expects the draft to respect the Syrian peoples’ right to decide the future of their country.
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Russian Federation has made clear to Western nations that it has no objection to Syrian President Bashar Assad stepping down as part of a peace process, in a softening of its publicly stated staunch backing of Assad ahead of talks in NY, diplomats said.
“I’m not sure it’s going to happen”, Churkin said of the resolution, which has been described as a rare gesture of unity in a Security Council that has been bitterly divided on Syria.
Russia, like Iran, has been a firm ally of Assad (pictured)and is intervening militarily on his behalf against anti-government forces in the five-year civil war that has claimed more than a quarter million lives.
He spoke shortly before some 20 foreign ministers gathered in NY to discuss civil war, the prospects of arranging a cease-fire and launching peace negotiations in 2016.
“We will not accept any pressure”.
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.
Speaking to MPs earlier this week, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond held out the possibility that the meeting of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) could produce a text for the council which will not be vetoed by Russian Federation.
Kerry said other countries would help Jordan draw up a final list.
But it does not include the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, or Islamic State – among the main players opposing Assad in a conflict now almost five years old.
But others said many remained anxious about his past links to Assad’s Baath party.
Najib Ghadbian, the SNC’s envoy to the United Nations, said opposition groups need “a month or so” to prepare for the political talks that would begin in tandem with a ceasefire. It also endorsed the continued battle to defeat Islamic State militants who have seized large swaths of both Syria and neighboring Iraq.
The movements agreed to set up a joint Higher Authority for Negotiations during a two-day conference in Riyadh, organized as part of a worldwide agreement in Vienna last month.
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State Department Spokesman John Kirby said Friday’s meeting seeks to “better define” what a political transition in Syria would look like and how a ceasefire could be implemented and monitored.
