Response Coordinators document violations of the Assad regime and its supporters in northern Syria

The Syria Response Coordination Group said, in a summary it presented yesterday, Tuesday that the Assad regime forces and its militias continue to support the so-called guarantor countries “Iran and Russia” by violating the ceasefire that Russia and Turkey announced on the fifth of March 2020.

The team pointed to the increasing frequency of violations in Idlib governorate and its countryside, documenting the violation of the ceasefire in northwestern Syria 27 times during the past 24 hours, and the Russian air strikes coincided with the meeting of the UN Security Council, in a clear disregard for the international system and its decisions.

The team called on all international actors to work effectively on a ceasefire in northwestern Syria, and to stop the Syrian regime and Russia on the ongoing and deliberate violations with a view to the military escalation again.

The team held the responsibility for the new military escalation in the region directly by the Assad regime forces and Russia, in addition to the forced displacement and demographic change in the region, condemning the severity of the hostilities and the continuing violations by the regime forces and Russia in the region.

The team denied the allegations of the representative of the Assad regime during the meeting of the UN Security Council, about the detention of civilians as hostages in Idlib, stressing that no civilians were prevented from moving in the area and that if the crossings were opened in reverse, we would witness a wave of mass exodus of residents in the areas controlled by the Syrian regime to the northwest.
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He pointed out that the concept of politicizing humanitarian work that the Assad regime delegate spoke about already exists and is clearly applied by Russia by working to prevent humanitarian aid from reaching northwest Syria and directing it to the areas of the Assad regime.

Source: Agencies