Also, a senior Kurdish official said Sunday that Turkish forces had once again fired shells into Syrian towns controlled by Kurdish forces.
Advertisement
An HNC letter to Ban accused the Syrian regime and its allies of committing two dozen truce violations that had killed 29 people.
The letter, sent on Sunday, urged the United Nations to help “specify the territory covered by the truce to prevent hostilities”.
The cessation-of-hostilities agreement, brokered last week by the US and Russian Federation, came into effect midnight Friday local time.
“We are concerned about the significant Russian military build up we have seen in Syria with the ground troops, with the naval forces in eastern Mediterranean and with air forces conducting air strikes”, he told a press conference in the Gulf Arab country of Kuwait.
The UN chief said Monday a fragile Syria ceasefire was holding “by and large” despite “incidents” of fighting at the weekend, as a UN-backed taskforce was set to meet to evaluate accusations of breaches.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the assistance will include food, water and sanitation supplies, as well as non-food items and medicine.
Twenty trucks carrying blankets and hygiene supplies entered rebel-held Moadamiyet al-Sham, encircled by government forces, and another 31 were to follow on Monday. He said it is the third aid convoy that has been allowed to enter Moadamiyeh in recent weeks.
There are efforts to strengthen the ceasefire, increase humanitarian access and build confidence before the resumption of peace talks in Geneva on March 7.
Russian Federation says it is only targeting UN-designated jihadist terrorist organisations – including IS and the Nusra Front, which is part of a major rebel alliance – in line with the terms of the cessation of hostilities.
The leaders of the Saudi regime, which is committing massacres against the Yemeni people, and after all it did in Syria for five years, should be tried at the International Criminal Court, the source said, adding that the same goes for the Israeli war criminals who had visited Saudi Arabia recently. Lebanese media said he was among four Hezbollah fighters killed in Aleppo last week.
– The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and militants report a precarious calm in the central regions around Homs and Hama, in Damascus and around Aleppo in the north. No air strikes are signalled against rebel regions.
“Firstly, in the run up to this cessation of hostilities there was a dramatic increase in the intensiveness of the bombardment, of Russian aerial bombardment and also of the regime warplanes of Bashar al-Assad”, she says.
Kerry and Lavrov discussed the full implementation of the agreement and reiterated the importance of close cooperation between Russian Federation and the United States as co-chairs of the International Syria Support Group, the ministry said. In those areas, there are both rebel groups who are part of the ceasefire and al-Qaeda’s al-Nusra Front, which is excluded.
Riad Hijab, who heads the HNC, a Saudi-backed opposition group, said Russian, Iranian and government forces have not stopped hostilities since the truce went into effect.
Hijab said the regime forces had violated the deal in 25 different regions held by the opposition with 24 artillery shelling incidents and five ground operations.
Advertisement
Jean-Marc Ayrault made the comments Monday shortly before addressing a meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
