A US threat to suspend talks on Syria over the bombardment of Aleppo's rebel-held areas constitutes "an emotional breakdown", according to a top Russian official, who says that Moscow will support a 48-hour "humanitarian pause" around the besieged city.
Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister, rejected on Thursday US calls for a seven-day truce as "unacceptable", but said a two-day ceasefire could allow desperately needed aid to reach the more than 250,000 civilians trapped in Aleppo.
The Syrian army announced last week an operation to retake the opposition-held east of Aleppo city following the collapse of a Russia-US orchestrated truce.
Al Jazeera's Rory Challands, reporting from Moscow, said the Kremlin "saw the seven-day ceasefire as a step that would allow the terrorists, as they call them, to stock up on supplies and rest".
"They [the Russians] say that the US is fixated on demands of a seven-day pause for reasons only they know," our correspondent said.
"It seems after the negotiations that brought about the collapsed ceasefire - there is a widening gulf between the Russians and the Americans."
Ryabkov's comments followed a warning by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Washington would end talks on the conflict, as well as a military pact that involves targeting the ISIL and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham groups unless Moscow halted the assault on Aleppo.
[aljazeera.com]
29/9/16
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Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister, rejected on Thursday US calls for a seven-day truce as "unacceptable", but said a two-day ceasefire could allow desperately needed aid to reach the more than 250,000 civilians trapped in Aleppo.
The Syrian army announced last week an operation to retake the opposition-held east of Aleppo city following the collapse of a Russia-US orchestrated truce.
Al Jazeera's Rory Challands, reporting from Moscow, said the Kremlin "saw the seven-day ceasefire as a step that would allow the terrorists, as they call them, to stock up on supplies and rest".
"They [the Russians] say that the US is fixated on demands of a seven-day pause for reasons only they know," our correspondent said.
"It seems after the negotiations that brought about the collapsed ceasefire - there is a widening gulf between the Russians and the Americans."
Ryabkov's comments followed a warning by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Washington would end talks on the conflict, as well as a military pact that involves targeting the ISIL and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham groups unless Moscow halted the assault on Aleppo.
[aljazeera.com]
29/9/16
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