The Council of Council could not prepare a resolution on the ceasefire in Syria in a timely manner

The vote of the UN Security Council on a resolution on the ceasefire in Syria is transferred and will take place on Saturday at noon in time of New York (20:00 in Moscow), TASS reports, citing a joint statement of diplomats made following the results of a closed meeting. Members of the Security Council tried to coordinate the document on Friday, but they could not resolve all controversial issues.

“The vote will take place tomorrow at noon tomorrow. We will work tonight and return tomorrow, we will vote and, I hope, we will accept the resolution with a consensus,” the Permanent Representative of Sweden at the UN Polof Skug told reporters.

In turn, the Kuwaiti diplomat Mansur Ayad al-Utei noted that the main contradictions are associated with the paragraph of the draft resolution, which indicates the terms of the aircraft entry into force and its duration.

Recall that it was Kuwait and Sweden that introduced the UN Security Council draft resolution in support of a 30-day ceasefire throughout Syria. The ceasefire should enter into force 72 hours after the adoption of the document. In addition, 48 hours after the establishment of the ceasefire the UN ceasefire, the delivery of humanitarian goods should begin. Also, after 48 hours, an emergency medical evacuation should start and a blockade from four districts - East Guta , Yarmuk, Foi and Kefrayi should be removed.

US Permanent Representative Nikki Haley previously expressed Washington's readiness to support the initiative. At the same time, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, Vasily Nevanja, emphasized that it is necessary to accept a project that would be implemented. According to him, to establish a ceasefire regime, it is necessary to go through a long and complex process.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov on Thursday said that the Russian authorities are aware of the extremely unfavorable situation in this region. "The work is generally intense, the situation really leaves much to be desired, to put it mildly," he said. To the question of whether Russia intends to impose a veto on the resolution proposed by Sweden and Kuwait, the Kremlin representative refused to answer.

On the eve of Reuters, it learned that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin in which they asked the Russian president to support the resolution on the ceasefire in Syria. According to the agency, the leaders of Germany and France wanted to make sure that Russia would not block the adoption of the document.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Russia was ready to coordinate the resolution on a humanitarian pause in Syria, but there are no guarantees in it that the militants will observe a truce. According to Lavrov, in the UN Security Council, "they are now trying to adopt a resolution announcing the declaratively immediate advance of the humanitarian pause for at least 30 days."