US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the US proposes creating two separate zones of operations in Syria with Russia.
“We’ve even proposed drawing a line, an absolute line, and saying, ‘You don’t go over there, we don’t go over here, and anything in between is fair game.’ And they are considering that, and I think we will get there in the next week or so,” the New York Times cites the US Secretary of State as saying.
"Kerry said that the Russians might be moving on Aleppo because members of the Al Nusra Front, an affiliate of Al Qaeda, were mixed throughout parts of the region, and that they were terrorists not party to the cease-fire. At the same time, he said, the region is home to insurgent groups that oppose Mr. Assad and have agreed to the cease-fire," the New York Times article says.
“That has proven harder to separate them than we thought,” Kerry admitted.
“We are not going to sit there and let him do his thing supporting the regime and hammer at the opposition and say, ‘This is working’. Obviously, we’re not stupid about it,” Kerry said.
“We have challenged them very directly by this to show in effect that they are serious about this. And if they’re not serious about it then it becomes very, very difficult to hold on to a cessation of hostilities,” the secretary stated.
