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Earlier in the day, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Moscow offered Washington to jointly plan and conduct airstrikes against al-Nusra Front, as well as other illegal armed groups in Syria.
"There is no agreement to conduct joint airstrikes with the Russians in Syria," Kirby stated. "What we are discussing with our Russian counterparts — in keeping with the ISSG [International Syria Support Group] communique last week in Vienna — are proposals for a sustainable mechanism to better monitor and enforce the cessation of hostilities."
Washington and Moscow have not yet agreed upon a mechanism to hold accountable violators of the Syrian cessation of hostilities (COH) agreement, Kirby told Sputnik on Friday.
"As the ISSG [International Syria Support Group] made clear, there must be a mechanism for resolving violations — a mechanism agreed upon and endorsed by the ISSG," Kirby said. "Proposals for such a mechanism to hold violators of the COH are what we are discussing with Russia. None of those proposals have yet been agreed upon."
Kirby explained that enforcement of the Syrian cessation of hostilities must be implemented by all sides, and any violator of the ceasefire terms should be held to account.
Comment: It's as if the U.S. power structure is entirely unaware of just how idiotic it looks. And the Russians are seemingly expert at presenting the U.S. with options that just make it that much more obvious. At this rate, Russia can propose that the U.S. join Russia in condemning murder, terrorism, pollution, fascism, and killing babies, and the U.S. will stubbornly refuse to do so, simply because it's Russia making the offer. Do these clowns not realize that the longer they continue with their "disagree with Russia about anything" policy, the more the world public, and the American public, will see them as the murderous, corrupt, terror-supporting psychopaths they actually are?