(Zaman Al Wasl)- The negotiation committee of Homs northern countryside and the southern Hama met with the Russian delegation and regime officers on Wednesday over the proper ways to secure the de-escalation agreement and implementing all outstanding demands such as detainees release.
The negotiation committee in a brief statement said implementation of the cease-fire was confirmed through the formation of specialized committees to follow up its mechanisms, and to address daily regime violations against civilians in the northern Homs countryside where regime targeted Houla towns before the start of the meeting in one hour with several raids and dozens of rocket and artillery shells, killing one civilian, injuring 15 others and causing massive destruction of private property.
The negotiating committee linked the opening of the international road, Homs-Hama to the end of the file of the detainees and the disappeared in Homs province, estimated at about 5 thousand detainees, and probably half of the detainees were killed under torture in regime prisons, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources.
Zaman al-Wasl learned from its sources within the negotiating committee that in addition to changing the meeting place and moving from a tent near the Dar al-Kabira crossing to the Qadoura checkpoint, south of the town of Ter Maala. The negotiation committee was surprised to see regime delegation representing the security branches in the province of Homs, and that the venue was changed to be away from the media.
The sources said that they discussed the suspension of the bombing and the deployment of monitors and find a communication line to report violations and that the Russian delegation insisted on opening the international road Homs - Hama cut by the Syrian resistance for more than 5 years. In response, negotiation committee said to the Russian that the road cannot be opened until the completion of the file of detainees and missing persons.
During the Eid al-Adha holiday, the civil and military actors in Homs province agreed to form a new and expanded negotiating committee of 32 people. The northern Homs and Hama southern districts were divided into six districts, and representatives from each region were appointed in addition to a representative of each faction of the resistance factions: Ahrar al-Sham Movemenet, the Sham Brigade, Tahrir al-Watan, Jaish al-Izza and Brigade 313, and 4 representatives of each of the cities of al-Rastan, Talbise and al-Huola, and representatives of each of the towns of al-Dar al-Kabire, Ghantu and the eastern regions, such as Zafarana, al-Saan, Izz al-Din and al-Quneitrat.
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