Secretary of State John Kerry’s Syrian cease fire agreement with the Russians won’t lead to coordination between the United States and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, a State Department spokesman clarified Monday.

“To clarify: the arrangement announced last week makes no provision whatsoever for the U.S. and Russian to approve strikes by the Syrian regime, and this is not something we could ever envision doing,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters in a statement released after the press briefing.