The State Department said that the United States Special Representative for Syria, James Jeffrey, will visit NATO headquarters in Brussels next Tuesday for talks with allies on ways to support Turkey in Syria.
In a statement issued on Monday evening, the ministry said that Jeffrey will visit the headquarters of NATO to hold a series of meetings with the allies on March 10 over the crisis in Idlib and its implications for NATO and ways to support Turkey in terms of its security concerns.
In addition, Jeffrey will hold meetings with high-ranking European Union officials to discuss and request assistance specific to the difficult humanitarian situation in Syria, particularly in Idlib, and to implement the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2254 on the Syrian crisis.
The Idlib area to reduce the escalation has witnessed severe tension since last February after the Syrian army launched extensive military operations against the militants in response to their attacks on the positions of the Syrian government forces, which, according to the United Nations, resulted in a significant deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the region, and also caused clashes with the Turkish army, Which supports what it calls moderate opposition formations.
On March 1, Turkey announced the launch of a new military operation in Idlib against the Syrian government forces in response to the “attacks” of the Syrian army on “Turkish military and terrorist groups” in the region, which witnessed, especially since February 27, great tension between the two sides after the killing of 36 elements. One of the Turkish forces in an operation of the government forces against the terrorist organization “HTS“.
On March 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Rajep Tayyip Erdogan, reached a package of decisions to ease tension in Syria’s Idlib, including declaring a ceasefire in the region as of 01:00 from March 6, and establishing a safe corridor in specific areas of the road “M4”.
Source: RT
