Konflikten i Syrien

H.E. Dr. Bashar Jaafari said at the Security Council session about "Eastern Ghouta" 22-2-2018, that Ghouta and Idlib will be the second Aleppo.

Urgent
#EastGhouta
Op #DamascusSteel will be halted for 4 days starting from tonight
Children,women and old men/over 60/ will be allowed to evacuate

If this truce came up as a success it will pave the way for farther negotiations, otherwise the military operation will continue.

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Security Council held discussions Thursday on the situation in Syria's conflicting enclave of Eastern Ghouta, but failed to agree on a resolution calling for a 30-day ceasfire in the war-torn country.

The council was considering a resolution, drafted by Kuwait and Sweden, that demands "a cessation of hostilities throughout Syria for all military operations except those directed at the Islamic State ... al Qaeda and al Nusra Front" for 30 days to allow aid deliveries and medical evacuations.

Swedish Ambassador to the UN Olof Skoog said he hoped the council could vote on the resolution on Thursday. But Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said he would propose amendments to the text for "it to be realistic."

No agreement was reached at the council on the ceasefire "as the conflict deepens in the Arab country due to a sharp rise in terrorist attacks," according to Nebenzia.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday appealed to the council to approve the ceasefire draft resolution, and especially to help the 400,000 besieged residents of Eastern Ghouta, whom he said, "live in hell on Earth."

BELGRADE, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Russia wishes to see terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra and its partner groups excluded from the ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Syrian capital of Damascus, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference here on Thursday.

Lavrov landed at the Belgrade Airport on Wednesday afternoon to attend the ceremony of the 180th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Speaking after meeting his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic, Lavrov said that Russia was the initiator of today's discussion at the UN Security Council about the draft resolution on the implementation of a 30-day humanitarian truce in Syria.

"We are ready to take the proposed resolution into consideration. We suggested a very clear formulation that the ceasefire will not relate to Jabhat al-Nusra and groups with whom it cooperates which shell residential parts of Damascus with artillery fire," Lavrov said.

He reminded that regular artillery fire has been coming from the area of Eastern Ghouta for the past year, terrorizing the civilians in Damascus - as well as that on several occasions they struck territory belonging to the Russian embassy and the building of the trade representation of Russia.

"Every time when such terrorist attacks start from the area of Eastern Ghouta, we know that behind them is Jabhat al-Nusra and terrorist organizations that cooperate with it and each time we ask from the Security Council to give a principle-based assessment about these unacceptable terrorist acts. Each time our U.S. and European partners avoided to react," Lavrov said.

He noted that "Western partners do not want to go so far to exclude terrorist from the ceasefire, which brings up many questions among Russians", and added that just days ago Jabhat al-Nusra and other organizations rejected the offer of Russian Army to leave Eastern Ghouta free-willingly and without their weapons.

"They rejected the offer and continued to open fire towards the city from their positions, keeping the civilians from the Eastern Ghouta as a human shield," Lavrov illustrated.