A senior administration official said today that the US was committed to rolling back the sanctions imposed on Turkey last week at the end of the 120-hour ceasefire period, noting that at that point the “pause” would become a “halt” under the terms of the agreement.

“We’re in the process of preparing to do that at this time,” the official said. “When exactly we’ll do that after 1500, I don’t know, but that is a commitment that we will live up to.”

The official warned that any further “kinetic military operation” would be considered a violation of the agreement.

“Any Turkish kinetic military operation that moves forward at the end of this 120-hour period when they’re supposed to go into an even more, if you will, rigid and formal ceasefire under the name in Turkish and in English of ‘halt’ will lead to us concluding that the Turks have violated our agreement,” the official said.