Boris: Russia must leave Syria. Foreign Secretary to spearhead diplomatic drive to get Putin’s forces out of war zone

‘Vladimir Putin will be told to pull troops from Syria and drop support for President Assad in a UK-US plan being spearheaded by Boris Johnson, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
Mr Johnson cancelled plans to visit Moscow on Saturday just hours before he was due to fly after a midnight phone call with Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State.
The pair agreed that the Foreign Secretary should instead lead a drive to secure a “hard-hitting” statement over Russia’s Syrian involvement from the G7 bloc of nations.
The proposal to end Syria’s six-year civil war will then be presented to Russian ministers by Mr Tillerson when he visits later this month.
In a fresh development last night Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, signalled a hardening of the Trump administration’s attitude towards Syria by calling for regime change in an interview which will be broadcast today.’

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