The Syrian government has agreed that women and children in the besieged districts of the central city of Homs can leave "immediately", peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said.
The government asked that the opposition provide names of other civilians who wish to leave the siege imposed by government troops, Brahimi said at a press conference in Geneva.
"They are asking for the names of civilians to make sure they are not armed people," he said on Sunday after the third day of peace negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition.
The rebel-held Old Homs districts in the centre of the city have been under tight siege by the troops of President Bashar al-Assad since June 2012. Thousands of residents there live in dire conditions, amid an acute shortage of food and medicine.
Brahimi said he was hoping an aid convoy could enter Homs on Monday.
Earlier on Sunday, Syrian government officials in Geneva told Al Jazeera that a convoy was ready to enter the besieged districts, but that the officials needed to coordinate security efforts to ensure its safety.
Sunday's negotiations between the two parties focused on the release of detainees from the country's prison.
The opposition has said it has submitted a list of tens of thousands of detainees, including thousands of women and children, held in government-run prisons.
Brahimi, in the press conference, said the government has in return requested from the opposition a list of detainees held by the different opposition groups.
"The opposition has agreed to collect names from detainees by the armed groups they have an authority over or communication with," Brahimi said.
The ongoing negotiations between the rival Syrian delegations are based on the Geneva communiqué, which lays out a political transition plan for Syria, calls for an end to fighting, and calls for the creation of humanitarian corridors to besieged areas. Al Jazeera
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