Tehran, Iran, February 12
By Mehdi Sepahvand - Trend:
World powers discussed reaching a ceasefire between the Syrian government and the opposition groups during a recent session held in Munich on Syrian crisis.
Two issues were discussed during the session, one of which was to establish ceasefire in all non-terrorist held areas in Syria within one week, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for African and Arab Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told Iran's state-run TV.
The second topic of discussions was dispatching humanitarian aid to all areas, with emphasis on food, medicine, and other humanitarian aids, he said.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said earlier that a nationwide ceasefire should be implemented within a week. His Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov also said that with a ceasefire, access to all besieged areas in Syria, will be secured.
Earlier in the day, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks with United Nations Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson. A day earlier, Zarif met UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura on the sidelines of the Munich talks held by the group known as the International Syria Support Group (ISSG).
Zarif also held separate talks with Lavrov and his Omani and Chinese counterparts.
A new report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR) has put the number of fatalities caused directly and indirectly by the foreign-backed militancy in Syria at 470,000.
It estimates that in all 11.5 percent of Syria's population have been killed or injured since the crisis erupted in March 2011.
Iran says Syrian ceasefire to settle within a week
World powers discussed reaching a ceasefire between the Syrian government and the opposition groups during a recent session held in Munich on Syrian crisis.
