Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, informed her about Russian-Turkish agreements on stabilization in the Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria, the Kremlin's press service said in a statement Wednesday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th September, 2018) Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, informed her about Russian-Turkish agreements on stabilization in the Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria, the Kremlin's press service said in a statement Wednesday.
"Issues of the Syrian settlement were discussed, and the Russian president informed [Merkel] about the Russian-Turkish agreements on stabilization in the Idlib de-escalation zone, reached at the talks with Turkish President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan in Sochi on September 17," it said.
Putin and Erdogan on Monday agreed in Sochi to create by October 15 a demilitarized zone along the contact line of the armed opposition and government troops in the Syrian province of Idlib, and the defense ministers of the two countries signed a memorandum on stabilizing the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone.
