archive photo of the meeting place with the Russian delegation / Syria Call

The Fourth Corps of the Syrian National Army announced its rejection of the proposal presented by Russia on Tuesday to the revolutionary factions in the northern Homs and southern Hama villages.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Corps said it refused to deal with the proposal because it has no guarantees for the future of civilians in the northern countryside region, pointing to its adherence to the right of self-defense and defend people. tThe statement pointed to that this agreement intended to set humiliating conditions disregarding the whole previous understandings and agreements".

The statement called on "Turkish brothers" guarantors of the agreement of the De-escalation Zones to play the role of which the entire Syrian people expected of them, and not allow Russia and its tail (the Syrian regime) to commit a new massacre against the Syrian people or forced displacement,", calling for the international community" to prevent a new war crime in Syria is taking place in front their eyes via the forced displacement of civilians in the countryside of Homs and cause a new humanitarian disaster."

The Corps stressed in its statement that it did not allow the handover of the fate of a quarter of a million besieged in the northern villages of Homs and southern Hama to the Syrian regime, which "committed all kinds of war crimes against our rebellious people demanding freedom and dignity, or for their collaborators in the region."

On the other hand, the combat battalions also refused in the city of Teoldo in Hula areathe Russian proposal calling for exit from the region and the delivery of heavy weapons, and demonstrations erupted also in the village of Ghantu and areas of Hula and Rastan of Homs countryside to express the rejection of the agreement.

It is noteworthy that the Russian delegation presented during a meeting on Tuesday with the Negotiating Commission of the countryside Homs and Hama a proposal that includes the handing over of heavy weapons and to depart those who do not settle their situation with the Syrian regime and the delivery of 120 bodies of elements of the regime forces were killed earlier in the battle of Aqrab, and the disclosure of the fate of 200 others, The return of the entire staff to their place of work, the fact that the dissident officers were considered to be staff members and the personnel who had agreed to the proposal should go to work six months after they join in their military or civilian work.