Secretary of State John Kerry listens to remarks by French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault after a bilateral meeting in Washington on the crisis in Syria. (Mike Theiler/Reuters)Secretary of State John F. Kerry called Friday for the Syrian and Russian governments to face a war-crimes investigation over attacks on civilians in Syria. “What is unimaginable is that any international war-crimes effort could seriously investigate a great power that does not want to be investigated,” particularly a power with a Security Council veto, said Benjamin Wittes, who edits the Lawfare blog on national security. Should Russia veto the resolution, “we will never give up simply because it is difficult,” Ayrault said. “I don’t see how we could possibly admit adoption of that resolution,” he said, according to Tass news service.

Source: Washington Post October 07, 2016 15:32 UTC