US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted Tuesday that Washington was still seeking peace in Syria, but said it had dropped ceasefire talks with Russia because of “outrage’ over Moscow’s support for the government.

“I want to be very, very clear to everybody, we are not giving up on the Syrian people, we are not abandoning the pursuit of peace,” Kerry said in a speech in the Belgian capital Brussels.

“We are not going to leave the multilateral field, we are going to continue to try to find a way forward in order to end this war”, including through the United Nations or through smaller groups of countries.

Source: AFP