Monday, August 15, 2016

Сергей Шойгу : Russia, US inching ‘closer’ on joint action in Aleppo

Russia and the United States are close to starting joint military action against "militants" in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the RIA news agency on Monday cited Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying.


“We are now in a very active phase of negotiations with our American colleagues,” Shoigu was cited as saying.

“We are moving step by step closer to a plan - and I’m only talking about Aleppo here - that would really allow us to start fighting together to bring peace so that people can return to their homes in this troubled land.”

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov complained on Monday that Syrian militants had used temporary ceasefires in fighting in and around Aleppo to regroup and rearm.

Lavrov, speaking at a news conference in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said he realized that brief daily ceasefires in place now to allow aid to enter and civilians to leave were not sufficient.

But he said it was difficult to make the ceasefires longer for the moment because of the risk of militants using them to regroup and rearm, something he said they had done in the past...
  [alarabiya.net with REUTERS]
15/7/16
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