U.S. - Efforts to Encourage British Pledge End Syrian Conflict

 

The U.S. and the UK on Monday (13/5), agreed to encourage diplomatic efforts to end the civil war in Syria.  

Both countries said that they had found overwhelming agreement with Russia related to the Syrian issue. U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to increase pressure on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and stressed that Assad could not be part of the transition to democracy. "History is being written with the Syrian people's blood, it is happening in front of our eyes," Cameron said in a joint press conference with Obama after they held talks for 90 minutes in the Oval Office of the White House. 

 "The world must come together in an effort to end the carnage. Neither of us wanted increasing life are falling, witnessed the use of chemical weapons." Cameron who had just returned from a visit to Russia, one of the supporters of President Assad, said he believes Washington, London and Moscow have found "common view" of the crisis, which has killed tens of thousands of victims. Agreed with Cameron, Obama said Russia had a "desire as an obligation" to resolve the crisis. "If in fact we can be a mediator towards a peaceful political transition that led not only to the departure of Assad, but Syria integrity ... and end the bloodshed, stabilize the situation, it is not only good for us, it would be good for everyone," says Obama . Ahead of the talks, Cameron told the National Public Radio station that the Secretary of State, John Keery, doing a "real breakthrough" in  with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, "when they agreed to hold a peace conference US-Russia". 

Cameron also said that Putin "is now keen to continue the ongoing conference of generalization toward peace talks specifically how to ensure (it) goes well." Obama declined to directly arm the Syrian opoisis but following a report on the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian army, which is considered to have stepped over the "red line" the U.S., Obama is under pressure from within and outside the country to do so. Last week Obama said that Washington had a national security and moral obligation to stop the slaughter in Syria, but he menyakatan want to get more concrete evidence related to the use of chemical senajta. On Monday he said, "We will continue gathering evidence related to the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the fact it will help us the next step." Cameron and Obama meet amid signs that the regime of President Bashar power probably will not disappear in the near future, following the success of his troops took over the strategic province of Homs. Watchdog Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported military-backed Lebanese Shiite group, Hezbollah, took over a number of strategically vital areas around Qusayr which connects the capital Damascus to the coast.