“The Secretary General has set up a commission to investigate a series of incidents in northwestern Syria in the Idlib de-escalation zone established by agreement between Russia and Turkey,” he said at a briefing, TASS quoted him as saying.
According to Dujarric, the commission will be led by the representative of Nigeria, General Chikadibia Obiyakor, it will include the representative of Singapore Janet Lim and the representative of Portugal Maria Santos-Pais.
Earlier, UN Secretary General Antoniu Guterres ordered to begin an investigation of the “series of incidents” that occurred in northwestern Syria after the conclusion of a memorandum between the Russian Federation and Turkey on the Idlib de-escalation zone.
First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said that Moscow considers Guterresh’s decision to start this investigation to be erroneous.