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US and UK say Russia’s offer is too Little and Too Late!
How
would anyone be expected to interpret the US and UK's refusal to
accept a cease fire of hostilities to allow humanitarian and medical
relief. It seems obvious that The Obama administration who could
easily end the stand off by not arming the terrorist are bent on
taking out only one man the legal President Bashar al-Assad. This is
a war crime in
itself.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/7...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/7...
https://www.rt.com/news/363221-asma-a...
Belgian F-16's were in the area of where Russia's proposed cease fire was broken. However the US and UK claim it was too late for the case fire
https://www.rt.com/news/363228-aleppo...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/7...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/7...
https://www.rt.com/news/363221-asma-a...
US nuclear war fears: Vladimir Putin warns Americans are in 'impending and grave danger'
VLADIMIR
Putin has warned "we are in grave danger" as he accused the
United States of lying over its nuclear capailities and revealed
Russia continues to develop new generation warfare.
From the Guardian
The US and the UK have rejected a Russian and Syrian offer of a temporary “pause” on airstrikes in Aleppo as the basis for reopening talks, saying there has to be a credible and durable ceasefire that should initially last as long as 48 hours.
Moscow had announced a temporary halt in the military push ahead of a planned eight-hour humanitarian pause on Thursday, designed to give rebel militants and the injured a chance to leave the city.
The US State Department said the Russian offer was too little, too late, and the UN humanitarian spokesman said that relief workers needed longer than eight hours to help extricate the injured.
Moscow announced on Tuesday that Russian and Syrian warplanes had halted their bombardment of the rebel-held districts of the city. Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, said “The early halting of airstrikes is necessary to declare a ‘humanitarian pause’. It will … guarantee a safe exit of civilians through six corridors and prepare for the evacuation of the ill and the wounded from the eastern part of Aleppo.”
Russian president Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the halt in the airstrikes was a goodwill gesture to pave the way for Thursday’s pause. “The Russian military is offering yet another chance, and we hope that our partners will allow us all to take advantage of that,” Peskov said.
The United Nations said Russia has communicated plans for two eight-hour cease-fires in rebel-held parts of Aleppo over “consecutive days” this week, implying there may be a further pause on Friday.
Jens Laerke of UN humanitarian coordinator OCHA said in Geneva the agency needs assurances from all sides that fighting will stop before it can provide humanitarian assistance to the city.
The Syrian crisis is likely to be discussed by Putin, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president François Hollande when they meet in Berlin on Wednesday, primarily to discuss the Ukrainian stand-off.
Merkel said sanctions against Russia over its actions in Syria should remain an option and cautioned against miracles over the Ukraine crisis.
The Russians appear to be trying to work round both Britain and France by attempting to win the support of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar for a ceasefire that will put pressure on al-Nusra front fighters to leave Aleppo. Estimates of the number of al-Nusra fighters in the city vary between 400 and 900.
In Moscow, Shoigu explained Russia is “asking the countries wielding influence with the [Syrian] rebels … to persuade their leaders to end fighting and leave the city”.
Russia has improved its relations with Turkey, and neither Turkey or Saudi Arabia say they want al-Nusra to remain in Aleppo. America has also condemned the al-Nusra prescence, saying despite a name change the group remains ideologically affiliated to al-Qaida.
Repeated efforts to separate moderate fighters from al-Nusra have so far come to nothing, partly due to resistance in Aleppo, and the lack of assurances about the length of the ceasefire.
Within the Aleppo there was no sign of support for the Russian proposal. “The factions completely reject any exit – this is surrender,” Zakaria Malahifji, political officer of the Aleppo-based Fastaqim group told Reuters.
Al-Farouk Abu Bakr, an Aleppo commander in the powerful Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham, said the rebels would fight on.
“When we took up arms at the start of the revolution to defend our abandoned people we promised God that we would not lay them down until the downfall of this criminal regime,” he said, referring to President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
“There are no terrorists in Aleppo,” he said, speaking from Aleppo. Rebels in eastern Aleppo have consistently said that insurgent groups linked to al-Qaida or inspired by it have no real presence in the opposition-held part of the city.
The British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, maintained his tough tone and rejected a Labour call to take up the Russian plan, saying: “The reality is that no such proposal can conceivably be made to work in the absence of a cessation of hostilities by the Russians and the Assad regime. That is the precondition. A durable and convincing ceasefire must be delivered by the Assad regime before any such proposal can conceivably be made to work.”
Johnson also claimed the mood of the British public was certainly changing to supporting a more military response to the “barbaric” Russian actions. But he added: “I do not yet detect a sufficient appetite in the capitals of the west, and certainly not yet in the White House, for the kind of action that I think could be useful, but, as secretary Kerry said, nothing is ‘off the table’.”
But Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, said “The chances of this plan succeeding are quite reasonable if the so-called ‘moderates’ greatly outnumber al-Nusra fighters.” He added that the ratio can be as high as 10 to 1 or even 12 to 1, if the UK Foreign Office has provided accurate estimates, claiming that there are somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 ‘moderate’ rebels in Aleppo.
The European Union said on Monday that “deliberate targeting of hospitals, medical personnel, schools and essential infrastructure” by Syria and Russia could amount to war crimes.
From the Guardian
US and UK reject Russian offer of Syria airstrikes 'pause'
West
demands ‘credible and durable ceasefire’ for Aleppo as basis for
talks as US calls proposal ‘too little, too late’
The US and the UK have rejected a Russian and Syrian offer of a temporary “pause” on airstrikes in Aleppo as the basis for reopening talks, saying there has to be a credible and durable ceasefire that should initially last as long as 48 hours.
Moscow had announced a temporary halt in the military push ahead of a planned eight-hour humanitarian pause on Thursday, designed to give rebel militants and the injured a chance to leave the city.
The US State Department said the Russian offer was too little, too late, and the UN humanitarian spokesman said that relief workers needed longer than eight hours to help extricate the injured.
Moscow announced on Tuesday that Russian and Syrian warplanes had halted their bombardment of the rebel-held districts of the city. Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, said “The early halting of airstrikes is necessary to declare a ‘humanitarian pause’. It will … guarantee a safe exit of civilians through six corridors and prepare for the evacuation of the ill and the wounded from the eastern part of Aleppo.”
Russian president Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the halt in the airstrikes was a goodwill gesture to pave the way for Thursday’s pause. “The Russian military is offering yet another chance, and we hope that our partners will allow us all to take advantage of that,” Peskov said.
The United Nations said Russia has communicated plans for two eight-hour cease-fires in rebel-held parts of Aleppo over “consecutive days” this week, implying there may be a further pause on Friday.
Jens Laerke of UN humanitarian coordinator OCHA said in Geneva the agency needs assurances from all sides that fighting will stop before it can provide humanitarian assistance to the city.
The Syrian crisis is likely to be discussed by Putin, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president François Hollande when they meet in Berlin on Wednesday, primarily to discuss the Ukrainian stand-off.
Merkel said sanctions against Russia over its actions in Syria should remain an option and cautioned against miracles over the Ukraine crisis.
The Russians appear to be trying to work round both Britain and France by attempting to win the support of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar for a ceasefire that will put pressure on al-Nusra front fighters to leave Aleppo. Estimates of the number of al-Nusra fighters in the city vary between 400 and 900.
In Moscow, Shoigu explained Russia is “asking the countries wielding influence with the [Syrian] rebels … to persuade their leaders to end fighting and leave the city”.
Russia has improved its relations with Turkey, and neither Turkey or Saudi Arabia say they want al-Nusra to remain in Aleppo. America has also condemned the al-Nusra prescence, saying despite a name change the group remains ideologically affiliated to al-Qaida.
Repeated efforts to separate moderate fighters from al-Nusra have so far come to nothing, partly due to resistance in Aleppo, and the lack of assurances about the length of the ceasefire.
Within the Aleppo there was no sign of support for the Russian proposal. “The factions completely reject any exit – this is surrender,” Zakaria Malahifji, political officer of the Aleppo-based Fastaqim group told Reuters.
Al-Farouk Abu Bakr, an Aleppo commander in the powerful Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham, said the rebels would fight on.
“When we took up arms at the start of the revolution to defend our abandoned people we promised God that we would not lay them down until the downfall of this criminal regime,” he said, referring to President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
“There are no terrorists in Aleppo,” he said, speaking from Aleppo. Rebels in eastern Aleppo have consistently said that insurgent groups linked to al-Qaida or inspired by it have no real presence in the opposition-held part of the city.
The British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, maintained his tough tone and rejected a Labour call to take up the Russian plan, saying: “The reality is that no such proposal can conceivably be made to work in the absence of a cessation of hostilities by the Russians and the Assad regime. That is the precondition. A durable and convincing ceasefire must be delivered by the Assad regime before any such proposal can conceivably be made to work.”
Johnson also claimed the mood of the British public was certainly changing to supporting a more military response to the “barbaric” Russian actions. But he added: “I do not yet detect a sufficient appetite in the capitals of the west, and certainly not yet in the White House, for the kind of action that I think could be useful, but, as secretary Kerry said, nothing is ‘off the table’.”
But Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, said “The chances of this plan succeeding are quite reasonable if the so-called ‘moderates’ greatly outnumber al-Nusra fighters.” He added that the ratio can be as high as 10 to 1 or even 12 to 1, if the UK Foreign Office has provided accurate estimates, claiming that there are somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 ‘moderate’ rebels in Aleppo.
The European Union said on Monday that “deliberate targeting of hospitals, medical personnel, schools and essential infrastructure” by Syria and Russia could amount to war crimes.
Russia
Starts Cease Fire Only to Have Coalition Break It
Belgian F-16's were in the area of where Russia's proposed cease fire was broken. However the US and UK claim it was too late for the case fire
https://www.rt.com/news/363228-aleppo...
6 killed in airstrike on village in Aleppo province, Belgian F-16 jets in area – Russian MoD
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PHOTO. © Ammar Abdullah / Reuters
RT,
18
October, 2016
At
least six people were killed in an airstrike on a village in northern
Syria’s Aleppo province, the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding
that two Belgian F-16 combat jets were operating in the area.
According
to information handed over to the Russian Reconciliation Center in
Syria by the local council of the Syrian city of Afrin, the village
of Hassadjek suffered an air attack in which six people died and four
more were injured.
The
Russian Defense Ministry stressed that neither Russian nor Syrian air
forces were carrying out any missions in the area.
At
the same time, the ministry said that Russian data recorders detected
two Belgian F-16 fighter jets in the area within the specified time.
Russian
and Syrian air forces halted airstrikes in Aleppo from 0700 GMT
Tuesday for a 48-hour humanitarian pause.
The
Russian Defense Ministry said that the ceasefire comes ahead of
schedule. The humanitarian pause to allow civilians to leave Aleppo
and for the delivery of aid to the city was initially scheduled to
start on Thursday and to last for eight hours.
Russian
Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that he expects nations that have
influence on the groups opposed to the Syrian Army and entrenched in
the eastern part of the city to put pressure on the militants and
make them the observe the true.
Meanwhile,
Syrian government forces that control the western part of the city
and have encircled the eastern part will provide two corridors for
the militants to leave Aleppo with their weapons.
The
move by Russian and Syria forces is line with the initiative of UN
special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura, who proposed a halt to
hostilities in Aleppo to let the terrorist group Al-Nusra Front leave
the eastern part of the city under a guarantee of safe passage.
It
is also in line with a Russian resolution introduced to the UN
Security Council, which backed de Mistura’s proposal but was
rejected by the other UNSC member.
Russia, Syrian halt airstrikes in Aleppo ahead of humanitarian pause
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