Alwaght- Russia, along with Iran and Turkey, is working on a draft roadmap to end years of terrorism and militancy in Syria.
Russian Defense Minister says Moscow is hoping to gain regional support for its drafted document that will define the roadmap to peace.
Sergei Shoigu said “Today experts are working on the text of the Moscow declaration on immediate steps toward resolving the Syrian crisis. This is a thorough, extremely necessary document”.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made the announcement at meetings in Moscow on Tuesday with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts, Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan and Fikri Isik, respectively.
All previous efforts by the US and its allies to agree on coordinated actions in Syria were “doomed to failure,” as “none of them wielded real influence over the situation on the ground,” he added.
The Russian defense minister further stressed that Tehran and Ankara’s approval of Moscow’s document shows “readiness to guarantee and jointly address concrete questions related to resolve [the crisis in] Syria."
In another development on Tuesday, Jens Laerke, the spokesman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said the Syrian government had authorized the world body to send an additional 20 staff to eastern Aleppo, where they will monitor evacuations from the formerly militant-held region.
The new deployment would "almost triple" the number of international staffers" in Aleppo, Laerke told a news briefing in the Swiss city of Geneva, adding, "The task is to monitor and observe the evacuations."
