Syria

USA and Russia want a cease-fire starting Saturday

The USA and Russia have focused on the conditions for a cease-fire in the Bürgerkriegsland Syria agreed. The truce should be at 27. February will begin at midnight.

This is shared consistently, the foreign ministries in Washington and Moscow. According to various American media have Syria’s ruler Bashar al-Assad and the opposition forces the conditions until Friday to agree to. The truce is supposed to according to the Reports, not the in Syria active Terror organizations like the militia “Islamic state” (IS) or the Al-Qaeda-offshoot Nusra Front. This would further from the U.S. and Russia fought.

Telephone conversation Obama and Putin are expected

Yet for that Monday was a phone call between U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected. The weekend had US Secretary of state John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov already a Grundsatzeinigung about the conditions of a ceasefire can be achieved. “I am pleased that the final agreements today were decided,” said Kerry this Monday. The US’s chief diplomat will called on all parties to the conflict, the cease-fire and implement the terms “fully” complied with.

Ban: the Long-awaited Signal of hope

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon welcomed the agreement. If all the Parties to the agreement held, this could be a “significant step forward”, said Ban in New York. A cease-fire was necessary to the political negotiations on the peace back into gear. Furthermore, a “long-awaited Signal of hope to the Syrian people that after five years of conflict, perhaps an end to their suffering is in sight”.

The international Syria contact group had on 11. February in Munich, Germany originally set a goal of, within a week of a cease-fire in the Bürgerkriegsland to achieve. The deadline was not met. The Russian and the Syrian air force flew their attacks on rebels, according to US information first, continue unabated. Turkey has expanded in the meantime, your approach against the Kurds in Northern Syria last other rebels from several villages displaced.

sti/uh (afp, dpa, rtr)