MOSCOW, March 21. /TASS/. Russia is ready to unilaterally use military force starting March 22 against the armed groups systematically violating Syria’s ceasefire if Moscow gets no US response to its proposals on controlling the ceasefire regime, head of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff Sergey Rudskoy said on Monday.
He said that Russia had sent the corresponding proposals on February 25.
The official also said that The Russian-US consultations in Amman on March 18 demonstrated the US is not ready to discuss suggestions on control over ceasefire regime in Syria.
"The Russian-US consultations, which took place in Amman on March 18, demonstrate the American side is not ready for a focused discussion and work on the agreement's text," he said. "The delays with bringing into force of the agreed rules for reacting to violations of the ceasefire regime in Syria are not acceptable. Every day, provocations and shelling there kill civilians."
"If the Russian Federation gets no response from the United States to these proposals, it will proceed starting March 22 to unilateral application of the rules specified in the Agreement… We emphasize that military force will be used only after we receive credible evidence of systematic violations by armed groups of the commitments made within the framework of the Joint US-Russian statement on the cessation of hostilities in Syria as of February 22, 2016. Military force will not be used against the groups, observing the ceasefire regime, as well as against the civilian population and civilian facilities", Rudskoy said.
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http://tass.ru/en/politics/863907It's Tass, so pretty much straight from Putin's "pen and phone."
