[Hijab is leader of the High Negotiating Committee that represented the Syrian opposition at last week's meetings in Geneva.] "United States credibility is plummeting within the population of Syria but also in the region as a whole". A meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry is planned on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told the Rossiya 24 TV channel on Wednesday.
Kerry said, "we will approach this meeting in Munich with great hopes that this will be a telling moment".
Turkey meanwhile is building up infrastructure near the its border with Syria, though its intent is unclear.
USA officials declined to get into the specifics of the ongoing negotiations out of fears of jeopardizing the outcome, but they said aid delivery could include airdrops of assistance by Russian and American aircraft.
When asked if the opposition wo uld attend peace talks later this month, spokesman Salim al-Muslat told Reuters: "Yes we will go".
"We're not only shocked, but also outraged, at what's happened in terms of human suffering in the past few days for tens of thousands of people through bomb attacks, including attacks above all from Russia", Merkel said. Six months into the Russian campaign, Syria's government, backed by Iranian and Hezbollah troops, is retaking territory and supply routes held by the opposition.
Diplomats said Kerry was taken aback by the sudden shift in the Russian position from apparently supporting efforts to replace Assad to throwing its military might behind him.
The UN has warned that 300,000 people in the east of the city could be cut off from humanitarian aid if government forces encircle the area, a tactic used by the regime to devastating effect against other former rebel bastions.
U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura halted the first attempt to nego tiate an end to Syria's war in two years after an offensive by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against Western-backed rebels backed by Russian air strikes. President Tayyip Erdogan said, referring to Washington's backing of the group against Islamic State.
In the eyes of the Syrian opposition, Russian Federation and Iran are making a mockery of the peace process, and Kerry's reluctance to acknowledge this is putting them in deadly harm.
"Therefore, one needs to decide on their intentions: who wants to support[1] who - the opposition that actually sees the possibility and prospects for a political resolution in the country in order to live together, or the opposition that professes the principles and objectives of the terrorists". And this - I've said already that this should be decided in a free, fair election.
The differences in focus among Russian Federation and Iran and the rest of the group have left some doubting if political talks will lead to the desired results.
Hijab, who defected from Assad's government in 2012, was chief negotiator for the opposition at the recent UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva, which were suspended last week following intensified hostilities in Syria.
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