The Independent :
The US Secretary of State has reportedly told the United Nations Secretary General that he thinks the fate of Syria and its leader is now up to Russia.
Rex Tillerson held a private meeting with Antonio Guterres at the State Department when he said the US was limiting its mission to defeating terror group Isis, according to Foreign Policy.
Citing three diplomatic sources with knowledge of the exchange, Mr Tillerson said that though the US is committed to the 2012 Geneva Process that stated it, Russia, and other western countries would put a transition government in place, the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would be in Russia’s purview.
The US has “limited tactical goals-deterring future chemical weapons attacks and protecting U.S. backed-forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria-not weakening the Assad government or strengthening the opposition’s negotiating leverage”.
One official told the news outlet that “the Syrian people should determine their country’s political future through a political process” and that a “”credible political process” would answer the questions looming about the country’s future.
The US Secretary of State has reportedly told the United Nations Secretary General that he thinks the fate of Syria and its leader is now up to Russia.
Rex Tillerson held a private meeting with Antonio Guterres at the State Department when he said the US was limiting its mission to defeating terror group Isis, according to Foreign Policy.
Citing three diplomatic sources with knowledge of the exchange, Mr Tillerson said that though the US is committed to the 2012 Geneva Process that stated it, Russia, and other western countries would put a transition government in place, the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would be in Russia’s purview.
The US has “limited tactical goals-deterring future chemical weapons attacks and protecting U.S. backed-forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria-not weakening the Assad government or strengthening the opposition’s negotiating leverage”.
One official told the news outlet that “the Syrian people should determine their country’s political future through a political process” and that a “”credible political process” would answer the questions looming about the country’s future.
