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Syria’s president has assured Russia of his readiness to respect a ceasefire deal brokered by Moscow and Washington, the Kremlin said.
“A phone call took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad,” the Kremlin said in a statement yesterday.
“In particular, [Assad] confirmed the readiness of the Syrian government to facilitate the establishment of a ceasefire.”
Assad described the ceasefire as an “important step towards a political resolution” for Syria’s civil war, the Kremlin said in the statement on its website.
However, Putin and Assad emphasised the need to continue an “uncompromised fight” against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, the al-Nusra Front and other groups “which are included in the respective list of the United Nations Security Council”, the Kremlin said.
The Syrian opposition has yet to decide whether it will commit to the US-Russian plan to stop fighting in Syria on Saturday, chief opposition negotiator Mohamad Alloush told Orient News yesterday.
Alloush said that the opposition bloc, known as the High Negotiations Committee, of which he is a member, would give the final answer.
Alloush heads the political office of Jaish al-Islam, one of the biggest rebel factions. – AFP
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