Egypt’s delegate to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Amr Aboulatta, asserted on Tuesday night’s council meeting that a thorough political solution would be the only means to end the Syrian crisis, according to the UNSC press statement. Aboulatta called for all parties to allow humanitarian access, particularly the UN aid, to aid the victims of the Syrian crisis. Al-Saharti’s statement follows Egypt’s parliamentary committee on foreign affairs member Tarek Al-Khouly’s call for ending military intervention in Syria by all parties, condemning the recent airstrikes by the United States. Earlier in May, Russia, Turkey, and Iran held the Astana ceasefire talks in which they agreed to establish four safe zones in Syria, supported by the Damascus regime and opposed by the Syrian opposition delegates to the talks. Egypt has expressed its support to the Astana ceasefire agreement, as Russia’s minister of foreign affairs, Sergey Lavrov, said in a press conference during his recent visit to Egypt, who described the agreement as the first step towards separating the “normal armed opposition and IS terrorists.”

Source: Daily News Egypt May 31, 2017 16:52 UTC