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1World News ---Syria's civil war: US and Russia clinch ceasefire
deal
DIR By: Dblessed One
Date: September 10, 2016, 4:55 am
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US, Russia hail breakthrough to put peace process back on track,
including nationwide ceasefire effectivefrom Monday.
The United States and Russia hailed a breakthrough deal on
Saturday to put Syria's peace process back on track, including a
nationwide ceasefire effective from sundown on Monday.
"Today, Sergei Lavrov and I, on behalf of our president and our
countries call on every Syrian stakeholder to support the plan
that the United States and Russia have reached, to ... bring
this catastrophic conflict to the quickest possible end through
a political process," US Secretary of State John Kerry said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that despite
continuing mistrust, the two sides had developed five documents
that would enable coordination of the fight against armed groups
and a revival of Syria's failed truce in an enhanced form.
"This all creates the necessary conditions for resumption of the
political process which has been stalling for a long time,"
Lavrov told a news conference.
The two powers back opposite sides of the conflict, with Moscow
supporting the government of President Bashar al-Assad and the
US behind a coalition of rebel groups.
If Russia is able to pressure Assad to respect the ceasefire for
a week, Moscow and Washington will set up a joint coordination
unit and begin air strikes against agreed targets.
"We will jointly agree on strikes against terrorists to be
carried out by the Russian and American air forces. We have
agreed on the zones in which these strikes will be carried out,"
said Lavrov.
Marathon talks
The much anticipated - if tentative - breakthrough came at the
end of marathon talks between Lavrov and Kerry in Geneva, as the
pair push for an end of the five-year civil war.
"Today, the United States and Russia are announcing a plan which
we hope will reduce violence, ease suffering and resume movement
towards a negotiated peace and a political transition in Syria,"
Kerry said.
The vexed question of Assad's fate remains, with Western powers
calling for his removal and Russia backing him.
But both Kerry and Lavrov said the complex plan represents the
best available chance to end the fighting between the government
and the mainstream opposition rebels, while still targeting
Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (the group formerly known as the Al Nusra
Front) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also
known as ISIS) group.
Key to the deal is the withdrawal of Syrian government forces
around rebel-held Aleppo, allowing desperately needed
humanitarian access to besieged communities.
The High Negotiations Committee, an umbrella group of the Syrian
opposition, on Saturday welcomed the deal, saying it hoped it
would bring relief to hundreds of thousands civilians.
"We hope this will be the beginning of the end of the civilians'
ordeal," HNC spokeswoman Bassma Kodmani said. "We welcome the
deal if it is going to be enforced."
Russia also needs to persuade the Syrian air force to stop
strikes on anti-government positions, which have also killed
large numbers of civilians.
In turn, Washington has to get the opposition groups it backs to
separate themselves from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, which has allied
itself with a range of rebels at different points in the fluid
conflict.
Only if commitments by Moscow and the Assad government to cease
violence for seven days are "fully met" will the US and Russia
start cooperating with joint strikes, the Pentagon said in a
statement following the announcement.
Lavrov cautioned that Moscow could not "100 percent guarantee"
that all the parties would obey the ceasefire.
"The Syrian Government has been informed by us about these
arrangements, and it is ready to fulfil them," he added.
'Window of opportunity'
A truce agreed in February and endorsed by the United Nations
Security Council has been repeatedly broken by both sides.
The final hours of the talks dragged out as Kerry contacted US
President Barack Obama's office to get approval for the plan,
but the top diplomat said both governments stand behind it.
"The United States is going the extra mile here because we
believe that Russia and my colleague have the capability to
press the Assad regime to stop this conflict and come to the
table and make peace," Kerry said.
The UN's Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura described the deal as a
"window of opportunity", and said he would discuss with UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon when stalled political
negotiations can restart.
Pro-government forces have taken back a strategically important
district on Aleppo's southern outskirts, rolling back nearly
every gain from a month-long rebel offensive there.
The government advance further sealed off Aleppo's
opposition-held eastern districts, and government troops backed
by the Russian air force have completely encircled
opposition-held neighbourhoods, leaving the civilian population
completely cut off.
In another major blow to the rebels, the military commander of
Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, the largest rebel alliance, was killed in
an air strike, rebel sources said on Thursday.
"Rebels are now back to square one, under an even more ruthless
siege," Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the UK-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP news agency.
In Aleppo, once Syria's economic powerhouse that has been
ravaged by the conflict that began with anti-government protests
in March 2011, desperate civilians described a battle for
survival.
The conflict has so far claimed an estimated 400,000 lives,
according to the UN special envoy for the Syria crisis Staffan
de Mistura. Millions of others have been displaced.
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