Macron says has hopeful of getting UN resolution on Syria truce
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BRUSSELS - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he was hopeful that the United Nations Security Council would call for a ceasefire in Syria.
Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Russia's President Vladimir Putin -- whose military intervention in Syria gave President Bashar Assad the upper hand in the seven-year-old conflict -- to stop bombardments of the rebel-held pocket of eastern Ghouta.
Macron added that he would continue his efforts to mediate if a ceasefire proved to be impossible.
