UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hopes agreement will lead to lasting cessation of hostilities. FMTNews
Putin and Erdogan shake hands during a news conference after their talks in the Kremlin on March 5.
Putin and Erdogan agreed on the ceasefire from midnight on Friday after more than six hours of talks in Moscow. The situation in Idlib, the last rebel stronghold in Syria’s nine-year civil war, had become critical as Ankara for the first time launched a direct offensive against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
Russia has requested a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council for Friday in order to brief members on the agreement, a diplomatic source told AFP.“I don’t think this will last long,” Mouawiya Agha, originally from Sarmin in the south of the province, told AFP. Two more Turkish soldiers were killed by Syrian regime fire in Idlib, the defence ministry said, just hours before the ceasefire took effect.
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