(CNN) — A ban on chemical weapons isn’t enough; the international community should also demand that the Syrian regime end its use of air power over populated areas, an opposition group said Sunday.
“The Syrian National Coalition insists that the ban of use of chemical weapons, which led to the loss of lives of more than 1,400 Syrian civilians, must be extended to ban the use of the regime air power and ballistic weapons against population centers, in addition to the redeployment of heavy weapons away from population centers, and the prohibition of use of these weapons to bomb Syrian cities and villages,” the group said in a statement.
“The world must not allow the Assad regime to take advantage of the Russian initiative and their joining the treaty on the prohibition of the use of chemical weapons as an excuse to continue the daily slaughter of the Syrian people with impunity,” it added.
On Saturday, after three days of talks, Russia and the United States reached a groundbreaking deal on a framework to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons.
