Germany welcomes Russia-Turkey agreements on Syria's Idlib and urges to ensure its implementation unlike past arrangements on Syria, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 18th September, 2018) Germany welcomes Russia-Turkey agreements on Syria's Idlib and urges to ensure its implementation unlike past arrangements on Syria, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday.
On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a meeting in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, which lasted almost 4.5 hours. They have agreed to create a demilitarized zone along the contact line between the armed opposition and government troops in Idlib by October 15.
"We welcome all steps towards avoiding a humanitarian catastrophe. That was the goal of our efforts last week. Implementation is now key to avoid the fate of other agreements in Syria in the past years," Maas said as quoted by the German Foreign Ministry's Twitter account.
