“The U.S. has not taken any stance on the declaration of a no-fly zone in the area. It just says the safe zone is discussable. It has taken action on training and arming, but I do not consider dropping arms from the air to be part of the training and arming process; it is arming without any training. So, what’s being done here does not have any positive effects on our expectations for the actions against the [Syrian] regime,” he said.