Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev says military won’t stay in Syria for ever

Others, including Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon, lined up to voice their doubts about the deal. He then plans to hold a referendum in Britain on whether it should stay in the EU.

Kerry added: “What we have here are words on paper”.

“NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg also addressed the forum, vowing to combine a firm stance against Russian Federation with more dialogue”.

“Just yesterday, we saw a shining example of what happens when one starts to move towards someone – the meeting between his Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis”, he said.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is very concerned about Russia’s involvement in destabilizing Ukraine.

The cessation of hostilities deal agreed by major powers falls short of a formal ceasefire, since it was not signed by the warring parties – the government and rebels seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad in a five-year war that has killed at least 250,000 people.

World powers, including the United States and Russian Federation, this week agreed to a ceasefire in Syria and to the delivery of immediate aid there. “This is a hinge point”, he said. You shouldn’t demonize anyone except terrorists in Syria.

The U.S., Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Germany and France as well as several other regional and global powers’ top diplomats made the deal between the regime and opposition groups in the German city of Munich on Thursday, which allows humanitarian aid to reach hundreds of thousands of people under siege in Syria. But he complained that coordination hasn’t gone beyond an agreement to avoid in-air accidents.

“Those who claim our trans-Atlantic partnership is unraveling – or those who hope it might unravel – could not be more wrong”, Kerry said.

PHILIP HAMMOND: Frankly, it depends on what Russian Federation wants. He said this week that the government’s goal was to recapture all of Syria, though he said this could take time.

The Cold War pitted East against West and pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Ukraine’s president says Russia is living in a “completely different universe” and is pointing to the risk of an “alternative Europe” led by Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, when asked to assess the chances of the deal succeeding, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov answered “49 percent” in Munich Saturday.

“To date, the vast majority, in our opinion, of Russia’s attacks have been against legitimate opposition groups and to adhere to the agreement it made, we think it is critical that Russia’s targeting change”, Kerry said.

Davutoglu said late Saturday that Turkish forces retaliated against a Kurdish faction “that presented a threat in Azaz and its environs” in line with the country’s rules of engagement.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Mr Kerry said civilians are dying in the Russian air strikes.

Expressing the concerns of some Eastern European countries, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite told the conference that Moscow is already “demonstrating open military aggression in Ukraine, open military aggression in Syria”.

“NATO’s attitude toward Russian Federation remains unfriendly and opaque, and one could go so far as to say we have slid back to a new Cold War. I sometimes wonder: are we in 2016 or 1962?”