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Wednesday 18 Nov 2015 - 12:24 Makkah mean time-6-2-1437
Paris (IINA) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that a Syrian cease-fire could be in place within weeks, Anadolu Agency reported citing CNN.
Speaking in an interview with CNN, Kerry said a growing coalition including Russia and Iran “gives us an opportunity to perhaps get a cease-fire in place within the next three, four, five weeks”.
This came following Vienna talks on Monday to resolve the four-and-a-half year conflict in Syria and after Syria-linked militants killed 129 people in gun and bomb attacks in Paris on Friday.
Kerry also announced that the U.S. and Turkey would soon launch a joint operation to close the Turkish border with Syria.
“The entire border of northern Syria - 75 percent of it - has now been shut off and we are entering an operation with the Turks to shut off the other remaining 98 kilometers," he said, adding: “I believe the pressure is mounting on ISIS”.
Ministers from nearly 20 nations attended the negotiations in Vienna, and they agreed to establish a UN-backed cease-fire and begin peace talks by the beginning of 2016. The UK announced it would draw up a UN cease-fire resolution.
According to UN figures, the Syrian civil war has claimed more than 250,000 lives and made Syria the world’s largest source of refugees and displaced people.
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