LONDON, 16 Oct. /Offset. TASS Ilya Dmitriev, Maxim Ryzhkov/. U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry did not rule out new sanctions against Russia in response to the situation in Syria. “We are considering further sanctions, and President Obama have not stopped to consider any options at this stage,” Kerry said, answering questions regarding the possible military operation in Syria.
“We will decide in the next few days in the context of the ongoing discussions,” he said.
His British counterpart Boris Johnson also called for tougher sanctions on Russia. “They (Russia) are starting to feel the pressure, and it is vital that we continue to exert this pressure,” said Johnson in the British capital according to the results of the multilateral meeting on the situation in Syria.
there, In addition to Kerry, was attended by the foreign Ministers of Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the representatives of depodesta Germany, Italy, UAE, Turkey and the European Union.
According to Kerry, return to ceasefire in Syria is a complex task due to the distrust on the part of many countries to the actions of Russia in Aleppo.
“Yesterday in Lausanne we had a very open discussion with the Russians and Iranians who were there, about how we can accomplish this (truce). There is work that needs to be done over the next days, which could open the way for a ceasefire. But it’s hard because many still sincerely believe that Russia is trying to resolve the problem in Aleppo in the same way as in Grozny, and that she’s not ready to really commit themselves,” claimed Kerry. Explaining that he has in mind in speaking about the capital of Chechnya, he mentioned “indiscriminate bombing”.
“This (the results of the talks the day before in Lausanne on Sunday in London – approx. TASS) will be tested in the next few days,” he said, stressing that the work will be carried out at the expert level. “Today we had a lot of new ideas, and we will continue to work on them,” he added, without explaining, however, what ideas is about.
Kerry warned that even if government forces manage to conquer Aleppo, this will not end the war in Syria lasts since 2011, and that a foreign state does not cease to Fund the training of new terrorists. “Russia and Assad must understand that this is not the end of the war, this war cannot end without a political solution. Even if Aleppo falls, and even if they completely destroy it, it will not change the fundamental course of this war because other countries will continue to support the opposition, and they will continue to train more terrorists, and Syria, and the entire region will eventually become victims of this,” Kerry said.
In the East of Aleppo, against which operation of the Syrian army, according to estimates, the UN special envoy in Syria Staffan de Mistura, the remains of about 900 militants “dzhebhat an-Nusra” (banned in the RF group), and about eight thousand members of formations of the armed Syrian opposition. Emissary international community has offered to withdraw from the city of terrorists under UN auspices, but the development of this initiative has not yet received. Damascus, meanwhile, says that he intends to fight them to complete destruction.
he Himself Aleppo remains on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe due to the fact that as a result of the failure of the Russian-American agreements on 9 September failed to create a demilitarized zone in the area of Castello road, which is necessary to the civilian population assistance.
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