Kerry: US-Russia plan 'may be last chance to save Syria'

September 13, 2016 02:14

US Secretary of State John Kerry today urged Syria's warring parties to observe a US-Russian brokered ceasefire and warned it could be the last chance to save the country.

Just hours after the truce came into effect, Kerry said it must hold in order to salvage any hope of the political settlement he said was the only way to end the war.

"For all the doubts that remain -- and there will be challenges in the days to come -- this plan has a chance to work," Kerry told reporters in Washington.

"We believe that the only realistic and possible solution to the conflict is ultimately a political outcome," he said, calling for a return to UN-mediated peace talks.

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