UN Security Council approves 30-day ceasefire in Syria - Polidicks

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-43183903"]Source.[/URL] [Quote]The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria. The 15-member council voted to allow aid deliveries and medical evacuations. It follows a week of intense bombardment of the Eastern Ghouta rebel enclave, near Damascus, by government forces. But after the vote, activists said air strikes were continuing. The vote had been delayed several times since Thursday as members struggled to come to an agreement. Russia, an ally of Syria's government, wanted changes. Western diplomats accused Moscow of stalling for time. The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, called for the ceasefire to be implemented immediately, but said she was sceptical that Syria would comply. Russia's UN envoy, Vassily Nebenzia, said the ceasefire would not be possible without agreements between warring factions. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said warplanes struck the Eastern Ghouta minutes after the council adopted the resolution late on Saturday. Earlier the observatory said 500 people had been killed in the enclave since last Sunday. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said the situation in the Eastern Ghouta was like "hell on Earth". The draft said the ceasefire would not apply to operations against the Islamic State group, and the Nusra Front - a former al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria. Russia wanted it to go further to include other groups "co-operating with them". The final text specified that operations could continue against "individuals, groups, undertakings and entities" associated with the terror groups, according to AFP news agency. Members of the United Nations Security Council vote for ceasefire to Syrian bombing in eastern Ghouta, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, U.S., February 24, 2018Image copyrightREUTERS Ms Haley blamed Russia for having "dragged out the negotiations". She said: "In the three days it took us to adopt this resolution, how many mothers lost their kids to the bombing and the shelling?" France's UN representative also said the action was very "belated". On Friday he said failure to act could spell the end of the UN itself.[/quote]

I don't see this lasting thirty days. Particularly when it says "fighting terrorists is still okay" and like half the parties involved here call the others terrorists.

As far as I'm concerned the liberation of East Ghouta can not come quick enough. Turkey also needs too fuck off and stop arming HTS.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;53157543]I don't see this lasting thirty days. Particularly when it says "fighting terrorists is still okay" and like half the parties involved here call the others terrorists.[/QUOTE] 30 seconds would be a realistic idea, 30 minutes is realistic but probable. 30 days? Shit homey, you're more likely to break the powerball [I]while[/I] breaking every bank on the Vegas strip in one go.