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Ceasefire in Syria: Saudis blame Russia

This is the beginning of the end of the cease-fire in Syria? In the last hours of new air attacks in the North of the country have been flown. Russia is suspected, together with the leadership in Damascus to fight on.

Clouds of smoke rise in Kafr Hamr in the surroundings of Aleppo

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The man in the Riad was sure of his cause. “There are violations of the ceasefire by the combat aircraft of Russia and the regime,” said the Saudi Arabian foreign Minister, Adel al-Jubeir. His government will talk with the members of the international Syria-supporters group. There is between Russia and the supporters group disagreement on the modalities of the cease-fire.

Everything is a pretext

According to al-Jubeir Russia is attacking the “moderate Opposition” under the pretext that it was the jihadist groups Al-Nusra Front and “Islamic state” (IS), which were not involved in the ceasefire. The United Nations would be in this issue in contact with Russia and the Syrian government, said al-Jubeir.

First information about new bombing had come from the Syrian Observatory for human rights, for parts of the Opposition speaks in London: Several villages in the North and in the centre of Syria, were attacked on Sunday morning from the air. In the province of Aleppo, a man had been killed, said the head of the Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman. Whether the air strikes by Syrian or Russian fighter planes went out, he could not say.

Russians speak of the nine violations

A little later, the Russian coordination center in Syria said The ceasefire had been broken in the past 24 hours nine Times. The centre has the task to monitor the cease-fire. Overall, the weapons will be adhered to a standstill in the country, however, hastened to assure the Russian side.

The role of the Al-Nusra Front

Russia’s support for the fragile cease-fire Plan had been seen as crucial for the Success. The two weeks, put a fire break was met on Friday evening at 23: 00 CET is in force and in the first few hours initially largely adhered to, as it was called in Reports from the crisis region. Not to the agreements jihadists groups, such as the “Islamic state” (IS), the Al-Qaeda-related Al-Nusra wanted to keep Front and allied Islamist militias. The was no sign of hope.

The hope for peace for the people in Syria remains, such as here in Homs?

According to the information from London, only one of the Sunday morning and attacked seven villages in the area of influence of the Al-Nusra-Front, the other to be controlled, therefore, by the Syrian Opposition.

Steinmeier’s Hopes

Shortly before the official date of entry into force of the ceasefire, the United Nations had a continuation of the peace negotiations for the civil war in the country at 7. March announced. As the requirements of the UN named special envoy Staffan de Mistura, that the ceasefire would be respected, and that more relief supplies would allow. Federal foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) said with a view to the ceasefire, now the responsibility of all”, not to disappoint the hope of the people on peace walks “. In the “world on Sunday” knocked Steinmeier to the fact that the access for humanitarian workers improved would have to be. The responsibility for this lies “the primary with the Syrian government”.

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