Moscow, SANA- Russian Defense Ministry announced\u00a0that Russian and Syrian air forces had stopped\u00a0airstrikes on Aleppo from 10:00am local time (0700\u00a0GMT).<\/p>\n
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, in a\u00a0televised meeting with military officials, said\u00a0strikes had been halted from 10:00 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
On Monday, The Russian Defense Ministry announced\u00a0a humanitarian pause in Aleppo starting from next\u00a0Thursday at 08:00 am (05:00 GMT) till 04:00 pm to\u00a0allow the passage of the civilians and the\u00a0evacuation of the sick and the injured.<\/p>\n
Shoigu called on the countries that have influence\u00a0over armed groups in eastern Aleppo to convince\u00a0their leaders to stop military action and abandon\u00a0the city.<\/p>\n
“Everyone really interested in the fastest\u00a0possible stabilization of the situation in the\u00a0city of Aleppo should take genuine political steps\u00a0and not continue shuffling political papers.”\u00a0Shoigu said.<\/p>\n
“Military experts would meet in Geneva on\u00a0Wednesday to start work on separating “terrorists”\u00a0from Syria’s moderate opposition,” Shoigu said,\u00a0adding that Russian specialists had already\u00a0arrived there.<\/p>\n
Lavrov stresses on separating al-Nusra from US-backed factions in conjunction with pause of air strikes in Aleppo <\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asserted the necessity of working on separating Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization from the “armed factions” supported by the US and regional states in conjunction with the halting of Russian and Syrian airstrikes on Aleppo.<\/p>\n In a press statement with his Paraguayan counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov said the Syrian and Russian sorties in Aleppo stopped today as a gesture of goodwill, adding that this pause in bombing must be used by Russia\u2019s partners to separate Jabhat al-Nusra and its affiliates from the factions that are funded, supported and armed by the United States and some European and regional countries.<\/p>\n He noted that this separation was promised since February 2016, but nothing has been done so far.<\/p>\n Lavrov pointed out that according to the outcomes of Lausanne meeting on Syria last Saturday, military experts would meet in Geneva on Wednesday to work on separating al-Nusra terrorist organization from the so-called “moderate opposition” in Aleppo.<\/p>\n H. Zain \/ Ghossoun\/M. al-Frieh\/H. Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moscow, SANA- Russian Defense Ministry announced\u00a0that Russian and Syrian air forces had stopped\u00a0airstrikes on Aleppo from 10:00am local time (0700\u00a0GMT). Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, in a\u00a0televised meeting with military officials, said\u00a0strikes had been halted from 10:00 on Tuesday. On Monday, The Russian Defense Ministry announced\u00a0a humanitarian pause in Aleppo starting from next\u00a0Thursday at 08:00 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[11562,11561,7892,2252],"class_list":["post-90906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-slide","tag-halting-of-air-strikes-on-aleppo","tag-humanitarian-pause","tag-russias-defense-ministry","tag-sergey-lavrov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}