The Idlib agreement .. The regime and the opposition welcome and Ankara explain its clauses

Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Gawishoglu said that the borders of Idlib will not change after the agreement reached by his country and Russia yesterday, while all concerned parties welcomed the Syrian file of the agreement, which avoids Idlib "humanitarian catastrophe".

In a joint press conference with his Jordanian counterpart in Ankara this afternoon, Oglu said that the civilians and members of the Syrian opposition would remain in their areas in Idlib, but there would be no presence for those described as members of the extremist terrorist organizations, adding that Turkey would send reinforcements to Idlib after the agreement, Will conduct joint patrols with Russia.

He said the two highways connecting the east to the west and the north through the south of Idlib and linking the city of Aleppo under the control of Damascus on the Mediterranean coast will be open to traffic by the end of the year.

For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif said in a tweet that effective and intensive diplomacy prevented a war in Idlib, with a pledge to combat terrorism.

Zarif pointed out that recent moves, including visits to Ankara and Damascus, the three-way summit in Tehran and the recent Russian-Turkish summit in Sochi, have been successful in avoiding the war in Idlib.

The Special Envoy to Syria, Stvan de Mistura, thanked the Turkish and Russian presidents for the agreement and called for the cessation of all military operations, especially after the downing of the Russian plane.

Other positions
A Syrian Foreign Ministry official said the Russian-Turkish agreement on Idlib was "time-bound in time", part of previous agreements on the area of ​​reducing the escalation, and was based on the unity and sovereignty of Syrian territory and the need to free it from what it described as terrorists.

The official news agency SANA quoted a source as saying that Damascus welcomed "any initiative that would inject the blood of the Syrians" and stressed that it "continues its war against terrorism until the liberation of the last inch of Syrian territory, whether by military operations or by local reconciliations."

The Syrian ambassador to Lebanon, Ali Abdul Karim, said in media statements that he sees the agreement as a test of the extent of Turkey's ability to meet the implementation of this resolution.

Yahya al-Aridi, a spokesman for the Syrian opposition negotiating committee, said the agreement made the regime's attack on Idlib unlikely, saving the lives of millions of Syrians and calling it an indication of the need to open the path to peace.

Qatar welcomed the Turkish-Russian agreement, and the Qatari foreign ministry said that this important agreement contributes to injecting the blood of innocent people and "spare the region a great humanitarian catastrophe."

German Foreign Minister Haikou Mas also welcomed the agreement and called on Twitter to be implemented immediately, he said.

Decision details
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced Monday they had reached an agreement to establish a "demilitarized zone" in Idlib under Russian-Turkish control, possibly avoiding a regime attack on the province, the last stronghold of the opposition factions in Damascus.

The agreement, reached at a four-hour meeting in Sochi, stipulates the withdrawal of all extremist fighters from Idlib and "the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the region," Putin said.

Under the agreement, a 15-to-20-kilometer "demilitarized zone" will be established in Idlib on the dividing line between the forces of the regime and the opposition by October 15.

It is scheduled to resume traffic on the roads of Aleppo - Latakia, Aleppo - Hama before the end of this year.