A cautious calm in northern Syria after an agreement on a truce with the Astana negotiations

The 13th round of Astana's negotiations with Syria ended in the Kazakh capital, Nur Sultan (formerly Astana), and a cease-fire was agreed upon in Idlib. The delegation of the regime described the meeting positively, while the opposition delegation denied accepting the withdrawal of heavy weapons.

He praised the final statement of the agreement to talk about calm in Idlib in accordance with the Sochi agreement reached on 17 September last.

The opposition delegation agreed to reach an agreement with the regime and the Russian side of the ceasefire in Idlib. The opposition delegation also denied the news of the regime that the agreement is conditional on the withdrawal of the opposition heavy vehicles twenty kilometers away from the contact points inside Idlib.

The leader of the opposition delegation, Ahmed Tohma, called on the regime to abide by the ceasefire agreement and not to attack civilians or vital installations, accusing the regime of exploiting the Sochi agreement to achieve progress in the field, prompting the opposition factions to regain their heavy weapons to the region and confrontation.

In a press conference in the Kazakh capital, Tohme said that the UN-backed Constitutional Commission was moving forward and hoped that it would be announced soon and said it would be a major step forward.

He noted that concrete steps had been taken with regard to the establishment of the Constitutional Commission, and expressed the hope that they would be announced as soon as possible. He also stressed that the detainees' case is the most sensitive file for the opposition and that during the talks they demanded a radical solution to the file, considering it inappropriate to launch a limited number of detainees.

Jaafari
On the other hand, Bashar al-Jaafari, the UN's representative to the United Nations and head of his delegation, referred to the negotiations with the Astana meeting positively.

Jaafari called on Turkey to abide by the agreement and implement its commitments under the Astana agreement and the Sochi agreement that the armed groups withdraw 20 kilometers west of Abu al-Thahr area between Aleppo and Idlib and withdraw heavy and medium weapons.

The SUNA news agency last night agreed to a cease-fire in the north of the country, "provided that the Sochi agreement, which provides for the retreat of terrorists within 20 kilometers deep, is applied to the zone of reducing the escalation by pulling and withdrawing heavy and medium weapons."

A cautious calm
In northern Syria, the Al-Sham Editorial Committee warned that any shelling of its areas of control would lead to its failure to abide by the current cease-fire and give it the right of reply.

After three months of escalation, northwestern Syria has seen a cautious lull since midnight, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russian and Russian planes did not launch any attacks on Friday.

But the registration of the regime forces was recorded dozens of shells on the northern Rifle of Hama, and the fall of rocket-propelled grenades at the positions of the regime in the province of Latakia this morning.