He said the United States should have informed the HNC, and should have involved them, before backing a U.N. resolution on the cessation of hostilities.
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Russian Federation had itself received declarations of agreement from 17 armed groups from Syria’s “moderate opposition”, the centre said in a statement cited by Interfax.
A spokesman for Syria’s main opposition umbrella group said on February 28 that the High Negotiations Committee has asked US officials for information about how the monitoring of the truce works but has yet to receive an answer.
Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian Military General Staff, background center, speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016.
Russian Federation also said Damascus was shelled six times Saturday, adding that the attack came from territory controlled by moderate rebels including Eastern Ghouta, east of the capital.
However the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the identity of the jets is not yet clear. “This really worries us because we don’t know how to deal with any violations and don’t know which areas should not be targeted”.
The truce does not include territory held by Islamic State militants or the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra Front.
The cease-fire went into effect across Syria early Saturday, marking the biggest worldwide push to reduce violence in the country’s devastating conflict that has killed 250,000 people, wounded a million and created Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.
Muslat added that the opposition was expecting answers about how the cessation of hostilities in Syria, which came into effect at midnight on Friday, was being monitored. Speaking by telephone from Riyadh, Meslet said the HNC would be lodging a formal letter of complaint with UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura, UN chief Ban Ki-moon and the foreign ministers of the International Syria Support Group. Humanitarian agencies are hoping use the truce to deliver aid to besieged areas of the country.
The second day of a partial truce in Syria was marred Sunday by a number of airstrikes and artillery attacks, the warring sides reported, demonstrating the challenges of even a limited deal. The second auto bomb was destroyed by Syrian troops before reaching a military post, state TV said. Fadi Ahmad, spokesman for the First Coastal Division, an FSA group operating in the rural Latakia area, said rebel groups were committed to the truce.
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In the north, IS fighters attacked the border town of Tal Abyad and the nearby village of Suluk, which were captured several months ago by Kurdish fighters, according to a Syrian rebel official. The truce regime does not apply to the groupings recognized by the United Nations as terrorist organizations, such as the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra (both outlawed in Russia).
