Turkey, Russia agree on Syria cease-fire plan

Turkey, Russia agree on Syria cease-fire plan
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28 December 2016
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Turkey and Russia agreed on a plan for a cease-fire in Syria, state media reported Wednesday.

Turkey's Anadolu Agency said the proposal for a nationwide halt to fighting, which could come into effect at midnight, covers areas where Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and the opposition are fighting.

The plan excludes terrorist organizations, Anadolu said, without elaborating on which militant groups in Syria fall into this category. If the proposed cease-fire holds, peace talks would then take place in Kazakhstan's capital Astana.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the cease-fire deal was imminent. Russia has not commented on the report.

Syria's government announced last week that it had retaken full control of the devastated city of Aleppo.

The peace talks in Astana would not include the United States and would be separate to United Nations-brokered negotiations to end the conflict in Syria that has been raging since 2011. The UN estimates that the conflict has killed a quarter of a million people and displaced more than 10 million.

 

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