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                                                             Tough Talk

Members of the Security Council meet to address the situation in Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, at U.N. headquarters.  (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
																

US, Russia Abandon Diplomatic Niceties in Syria Talks

BRADLEY KLAPPER               try’s cease-fire and offering  In a U.N. Security Council     sought to revive the U.S.-    visibly angry Kerry told the
Associated Press              only temporary patches to      session originally envisioned  Russian cease-fire deal,      council. “Everybody sits
UNITED NATIONS (AP) —         stem the bloodshed. Sec-       to enshrine  Syria’s  Sept. 9  but once again illustrated    there and says we want
The United States and Rus-    retary of State John Kerry     truce, world powers rued       why they’ve been unable       a united  Syria, secular, re-
sia abandoned diplomatic      called for all warplanes to    the possibility of a dark-     for more than five years to   specting the rights of all
niceties Wednesday in a       halt flights over aid routes,  er phase in the conflict       stop Syria’s civil war.       people, in which the peo-
fractious public debate       while Russia’s chief diplo-    amid increased attacks         “Supposedly we all want       ple of  Syria  can choose
over  Syria, blaming each     mat spoke of a possible        on humanitarian workers.       the same goal. I’ve heard     their leadership.
other for spoiling the coun-  three-day pause in fighting.   The council’s nations all      that again and again,” a
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