UK PM: political solution in Syria 'currently impossible'

UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday a political solution in Syria is now impossible given the level of violence in the country, ITV reported.

"The levels of violence we are seeing, the way the Syrian regime is indiscriminately bombing its own civilians and their policy of starve or surrender, that seems to make a political solution at the moment impossible," May said.

"We continue to believe there should be a cessation of hostilities a ceasefire - but that has to be something that can be sustained. We will of course look at the proposals the French have put forward in the security council," she added.

The UK premier said the international community should continue to put more pressure on Russia "to allow that humanitarian aid to get through in Aleppo and to ensure that there can be a ceasefire such that the parties can sit down together and find what is the only long term solution for Syria which is a political solution."

"We need a political solution, a political long term solution that sees a Syria without Assad," she concluded.

Source: MENA