Moscow hails news of Homs truce three-day extension - Ministry
MOSCOW. Feb 11 (Interfax) - Moscow is satisfied with the agreements to extend the truce in the old part of the city of Homs by three days.
"It was with satisfaction that Moscow learnt a report about a three-day extension of the humanitarian truce in the old part of the city of Homs. Thanks to the ceasefire, over 800 people, mainly old people, women and children, have already managed to leave the area. Residents from the besieged blocks were supplied with additional food rations," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a commentary posted on the ministry's website.
"Our information is that as a result of talks between representatives of the Syrian authorities, Palestinian groups and the armed opposition in the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk near Damascus an agreement has been reached that 'alien' militants should leave the camp over the next 24 hours," Lukashevich also said. "We are talking primarily about the Jabhat al-Nusra group," the commentary said.
