The Kremlin press office reported Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin participated in a joint telephone conference with European leaders to discuss the partial cease-fire in Syria.
The Kremlin press office reported Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin participated in a joint telephone conference with European leaders to discuss the partial cease-fire in Syria.
According to Reuters, Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi told Putin in a phone call that the cessation of hostilities must hold to try to settle a conflict that has killed more than 250,000 people and created a refugee crisis.
The Kremlin spokesman claims the main point of European leaders' call to Putin was that Russia welcomes "the fact that this fragile truce appears to be holding". "(And) we have got to use this as a positive dynamic now to create some momentum behind the talks ... so we can move from a truce into a more lasting, durable peace with a political transition away from Assad," he added.
Putin, Merkel, Cameron, Hollande and Matteo Renzi promised staunch support for the International Syrian Support Group (ISSG), the UN Security Council and UN Syria special envoy Staffan de Mistura, RT informs.
The ceasefire came into effect on February 27, in compliance with the joint statement of the United States and the Russian Federation.
