Syria, an agreement between Erdogan and Putin for the ceasefire in Idlib since midnight. UN: “One million displaced civilians, 60% minors”

The presidents of Turkey and Russia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is Vladimir Putin, announced they had found an agreement for the cease-fire in northwestern Syria, in the Idlib region, which will come into force from midnight. The agreement provides for the creation of a security corridor 12 kilometers wide along the M4 highway, which will be jointly controlled by Russian and Turkish patrols, starting from March 15th. Then there will be one buffer zone six kilometers wide to separate the Turkish from the Syrian military. The meeting in the Kremlin between Putin and Erdogan lasted six hours. Moscow and Ankara reiterated that there is no military solution to the crisis in Syria and that the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity “must be respected”.

“We both believe that Syria’s territorial integrity must be maintained and that the terrorists: I hope these agreements help build a base to stop the escalation in Syria and stop the humanitarian crisis, “said the Russian president. According to Erdogan “the forces of the Syrian regime violated the agreements, and the inhabitants of Idlib fled. Assad wants to wipe out civilians in that region and we won’t be watching. ”

In the meantime, there have been dozens of Russian airstrikes today against towns and villages of Jabal al-Zawiya, Idlib province, while Syrian Assad forces have launched a new ground offensive on Al-Fatira and Fleifel, where they occurred. violent clashes with opposition factions and jihadists. According to activists from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, victims have been recorded on both sides.

L’UN he made it known that he went up to a million displaced people the number of Syrian civilians, mostly women and children, forced to flee northwest Syria. The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Coordination (Ocha) says that compared to the previous count in late March, the number of internally displaced people since 1 December has so far increased to one million people. Of these, 80% are women and children. Minors are 60% percent. These are people huddled in a narrow area between the government advance line in Idlib and Aleppo and the Turkish border. For years, Turkey has sealed its border and has no Syrian refugees passing through its country, where more than three million Syrian civilians have arrived since 2011. 4 million people live in the whole area of ​​Idlib and Aleppo under Turkish control. Of these, almost three million (2 million eight hundred thousand) need urgent humanitarian assistance.

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