27 Apr 2016 15:50

Russian General Staff is increasingly confident of irreversibility of Syrian ceasefire

(Technical repeat)

MOSCOW. April 27 (Interfax) - The joining to the ceasefire regime of new Syrian opposition units makes one confident that this process is irreversible, Lieutenant-General Sergei Rudskoi, the head of the main operative department of the Russian General Staff, said.

"According to our estimations, the measures taken by the Armed Forces to establish dialogue between the parties to the Syrian conflict help maintain the ceasefire regime on the territory of Syria," Rudskoi said at the Fifth Moscow Conference on International Security on Wednesday.

"More Syrian opposition units are now joining it, which makes one confident that this process will become irreversible," Rudskoi said.