Kerry aims to extend truce to Syria's Aleppo as ceasefire unravels

reuters ^ | 5/2/16

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in order for Kerry to get Syria and Russian to relax, they need to tell Hussein Obama's freedom fighter to stop attacking too: Washington and Moscow said on Monday they were working hard to extend a truce in Syria to Aleppo, the divided northern city where a sharp escalation of violence in recent weeks has left a ceasefire in tatters and torpedoed peace talks.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Geneva for meetings with other dignitaries to try to revive the two-month-old U.S. and Russia-sponsored cessation of hostilities, which quieted guns for the first time during the five-year Syrian war but which has unraveled in recent days.

Syria announced temporary local truces in two areas last week. But those agreements have not been extended to Aleppo, where government air strikes and rebel shelling have killed hundreds of civilians in the past week, including more than 50 people in a hospital rebels say was deliberately targeted by the army.

The Aleppo fighting threatens to wreck the first peace talks involving the warring parties, which are due to resume at an unspecified date after breaking up in April when the opposition delegation walked out citing government ceasefire violations.

"We're getting closer to a place of understanding, but we have some work to do, and that's why we're here," Kerry said at the start of a meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir.

Kerry said he hoped for more clarity in the next day or so on restoring the nationwide ceasefire. The United States and Russia had agreed to keep extra staff in Geneva to work on it.

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Kerry is such a buffoon. He so wants his Nobel Peace Prize before he is kicked out of office in January 2017. He doesn’t realize there is only one UNDESERVED PEACE PRIZE allocated per ‘RAT presidential term and that is long since gone.

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did you see this story: ‘Show remorse’: Russian MP suggests Obama give Nobel to Libya children. Commenting on Barack Obama’s statement about mistakes committed during 2011 campaign in Libya, Russian MP Aleksey Pushkov said the US leader could partially make up for them by giving his Nobel Peace Prize to Libyan children. “If Obama is sincere about his remorse and wants to redeem the situation he should abandon his Nobel Peace Prize and give it to Libyan children,” Pushkov tweeted. The comment came soon after Obama told Fox News that failing to plan for the aftermath of the US-led military intervention in Libya was the worst mistake during his eight years in the White House. This was not the first time Pushkov criticized the Nobel Committee for choosing Obama as the laureate for the 2009 Peace Prize. In 2011, the MP told a news conference that in his opinion the US leader deserved a “Nobel Prize of War” instead of the award he got. In 2014, Pushkov commented on the Democrats’ failure in the 2014 midterms by tweeting that “Obama has turned from president of hope into president of despair. rt.com/politics/339166-show-your-remorse-russian-mp/