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On Top Of The News Email:news@arubatoday.com website: www.arubatoday.com Tel:+297 582-7800 Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Kerry Seeks Path to Calm in Syria, Holds Talks in Geneva

ZEINA KARAM
MATHEW LEE
Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s mili-
tary extended its own, uni-
lateral cease-fire around
Damascus for another 48
hours on Monday amid an
intense diplomatic push
by the United States and
Russia to restore a partial
truce for the entire country
— one that would include
war-battered Aleppo, Syr-
ia’s largest city.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, right, speak to the media during a press

briefing after their meeting on Syria in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 2, 2016. 		

											                                                                            (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

American officials say one   out “safe zones” where civil-  government attacks.           President Bashar Assad’s
idea being considered by     ians and members of mod-       It was not immediately clear  government to respect the
the U.S. side is a detailed  erate opposition groups        whether Russia would ac-      prospective zones.
map that would be drawn      covered by the truce could     cept such a plan or if Mos-
up with the Russians laying  find shelter from persistent   cow could persuade Syrian          Continued on Page 9
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