Start Date: Sunday, September 18, 2016
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 5, 2020
End Date: Friday, December 31, 9999
QUESTION: The Syrian military is saying the seven-day ceasefire is over. It – has it failed? What --
SECRETARY KERRY: I’ve already – I’ve already spoken to this issue.
QUESTION: But they’re just saying now that the ceasefire --
STAFF: Okay. Thank you, everybody.
STAFF: Thank you.
QUESTION: -- that the seven-day period is over.
SECRETARY KERRY: We have not had seven days of calm and delivery of humanitarian goods, and so – it’d be good if they didn’t talk first to the press but if they talked to the people who are actually negotiating this. And I think it’s, as I said yesterday, time to end the grandstanding and time to do the real work of delivering on the humanitarian goods that are necessary for access. So we just began today to see real movement of humanitarian goods, and let’s see where we are, and we’re happy to have a good conversation with them about how to proceed.
John Kerry
Waldorf Astoria
Remarks With Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
09/19/16