Syria: Rejected the Russian draft Security Council Resolution
France, the United States and other member states of the UN Security Council rejected a Russian draft resolution calling for an end to military operations by Turkey in Syria, diplomats said.
Meanwhile, Russian and US officials discussed in Geneva for a ceasefire in Syria, which would theoretically be applied this week but the warring defied.
As the war in Syria is heading for the sixth time, the hopes for peace seem leaner than ever, recognized the special envoy of the United Nations Stafa de Mistoura.
Russia, the closest ally of the Syrian regime, asked to urgently convene the Security Council to discuss a text that required Turkey to cease firing with artillery against Kurdish rebels in northern Syria to abandon its plans for a ground operation in Syrian terrain.
Diplomats reported that France and at least four more countries (the US, Britain, New Zealand and Spain) immediately rejected the text submitted by Moscow, which had almost no chance to be approved.
The deputy ambassador of Russia in the United Nations Vladimir Safrankof said the country is "ready to negotiate" and invited the other countries of the 15-member Security Council to propose amendments.
For his part, the ambassador of France to the United Nations accused Moscow that caused a "dangerous escalation" supporting the Syrian regime in the raid has unleashed in Aleppo, while the US Ambassador Samantha Powers stated that Moscow "seeks a distraction."
French President Francois Hollande estimated yesterday that there is a "war risk" between Turkey and Russia.
The US President Barack Obama called on Ankara and the People's Protection Units (YPG, the armed arm of the largest party of Syrian Kurds) to "show restraint" during a telephone conversation with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Turkish Ambassador Yaşar Halit Tsevik insisted told reporters that his country "will not be entered Syria with ground forces only in the context of a collective action" international coalition under US leadership, with the approval of the Security Council. But insisted that Ankara has "right to defend itself."
Turkey expanded bombings in many areas of the province of Aleppo controlled by Kurdish rebels, who blames the deadly bombing Wednesday in Ankara.
The President Erdogan said, speaking of the attack, it has "no doubt" that behind the attack is the Party of Democratic Union (PYD) and his military arm, the YPG, both organizations which Ankara describes as "terrorist". The responsibility, however, took a different organization, "Falcons for the Liberation of Kurdistan", or TAK, which is considered adjacent to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The fighters of YPG, which control three quarters of the Syrian-Turkish border, supported by Washington because they are at the forefront of the battle against jihadist organization Islamic State (IR), which has occupied vast areas of Syrian territory.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (CRM), an alliance in which the major power are the YPG, yesterday occupied the Sundance stronghold of IK in northeastern Syria, setting also under their control an oil field close to that, with the air support of international coalition, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
In an attempt to reach a ceasefire, as called on February 12 the International Syrian Support Group (DOSS), diplomats and officers of the armed forces of Russia and the United States met yesterday in Geneva, according to the Athens Press Agency.
The US Secretary of State John Kerry had recently acknowledged that it remains "more work" to be done before it can enter into force a ceasefire in Syria. "The processing conditions for a ceasefire, in a situation such as that in Syria, is a very technical and detailed process; that is why our teams are still at work. We want this process to be sustainable and if all parties demonstrate willingness and actually sit down to find a solution, we can reach a cessation of hostilities. "
As regards the negotiations between the regime and the opposition under the auspices of the UN, which were suspended on February 3, they continue to be at a standstill.
In an interview in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, the Staph de Mistoura said there would be "realistic" to convene a further meeting in Geneva on February 25, but added that "we intend to do soon."
The Syrian government forces, with the support of the Russian Air Force, launched in early February a large-scale operation that allowed them to retake areas in the north of Aleppo, but this was accompanied by a mass exodus.
Saudi Arabia has meanwhile clearly supports the ground-to-air missile delivery to Syrian rebels, he said in an interview published in the issue of the German news Der Spiegel magazine that circulates today the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al Tzoumpeir.
France, the United States and other member states of the UN Security Council rejected a Russian draft resolution calling for an end to military operations by Turkey in Syria, diplomats said.
Meanwhile, Russian and US officials discussed in Geneva for a ceasefire in Syria, which would theoretically be applied this week but the warring defied.
As the war in Syria is heading for the sixth time, the hopes for peace seem leaner than ever, recognized the special envoy of the United Nations Stafa de Mistoura.
Russia, the closest ally of the Syrian regime, asked to urgently convene the Security Council to discuss a text that required Turkey to cease firing with artillery against Kurdish rebels in northern Syria to abandon its plans for a ground operation in Syrian terrain.
Diplomats reported that France and at least four more countries (the US, Britain, New Zealand and Spain) immediately rejected the text submitted by Moscow, which had almost no chance to be approved.
The deputy ambassador of Russia in the United Nations Vladimir Safrankof said the country is "ready to negotiate" and invited the other countries of the 15-member Security Council to propose amendments.
For his part, the ambassador of France to the United Nations accused Moscow that caused a "dangerous escalation" supporting the Syrian regime in the raid has unleashed in Aleppo, while the US Ambassador Samantha Powers stated that Moscow "seeks a distraction."
French President Francois Hollande estimated yesterday that there is a "war risk" between Turkey and Russia.
The US President Barack Obama called on Ankara and the People's Protection Units (YPG, the armed arm of the largest party of Syrian Kurds) to "show restraint" during a telephone conversation with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Turkish Ambassador Yaşar Halit Tsevik insisted told reporters that his country "will not be entered Syria with ground forces only in the context of a collective action" international coalition under US leadership, with the approval of the Security Council. But insisted that Ankara has "right to defend itself."
Turkey expanded bombings in many areas of the province of Aleppo controlled by Kurdish rebels, who blames the deadly bombing Wednesday in Ankara.
The President Erdogan said, speaking of the attack, it has "no doubt" that behind the attack is the Party of Democratic Union (PYD) and his military arm, the YPG, both organizations which Ankara describes as "terrorist". The responsibility, however, took a different organization, "Falcons for the Liberation of Kurdistan", or TAK, which is considered adjacent to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The fighters of YPG, which control three quarters of the Syrian-Turkish border, supported by Washington because they are at the forefront of the battle against jihadist organization Islamic State (IR), which has occupied vast areas of Syrian territory.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (CRM), an alliance in which the major power are the YPG, yesterday occupied the Sundance stronghold of IK in northeastern Syria, setting also under their control an oil field close to that, with the air support of international coalition, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
In an attempt to reach a ceasefire, as called on February 12 the International Syrian Support Group (DOSS), diplomats and officers of the armed forces of Russia and the United States met yesterday in Geneva, according to the Athens Press Agency.
The US Secretary of State John Kerry had recently acknowledged that it remains "more work" to be done before it can enter into force a ceasefire in Syria. "The processing conditions for a ceasefire, in a situation such as that in Syria, is a very technical and detailed process; that is why our teams are still at work. We want this process to be sustainable and if all parties demonstrate willingness and actually sit down to find a solution, we can reach a cessation of hostilities. "
As regards the negotiations between the regime and the opposition under the auspices of the UN, which were suspended on February 3, they continue to be at a standstill.
In an interview in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, the Staph de Mistoura said there would be "realistic" to convene a further meeting in Geneva on February 25, but added that "we intend to do soon."
The Syrian government forces, with the support of the Russian Air Force, launched in early February a large-scale operation that allowed them to retake areas in the north of Aleppo, but this was accompanied by a mass exodus.
Saudi Arabia has meanwhile clearly supports the ground-to-air missile delivery to Syrian rebels, he said in an interview published in the issue of the German news Der Spiegel magazine that circulates today the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al Tzoumpeir.
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