Syria still waiting for written guarantees

“To say that Syria will pull back its forces from towns on April 10 is inaccurate, Kofi Annan having not yet presented written guarantees on the acceptance by armed terrorist groups of a halt to all violence,” the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on Sunday.

On April 5, Annan’s spokesperson Ahmad Fawzi said, “What we expect on April 10 is that the Syrian government will have completed its withdrawal from populated centers.”

The withdrawal was part of a six-point plan proposed by Annan to Damascus in March.

The Sunday statement added that the special envoy to Syria for the United Nations and the Arab League, Kofi Annan, “has not submitted written guarantees from the governments of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey on stopping their funding to terrorist groups.”

“Syria will not repeat what happened during the (Arab League) mission, when it committed to the exit of its armed forces from the cities and surrounding areas; then the armed terrorist groups took advantage to arm its members and conduct all forms of terrorism.”

“Armed terrorist groups reorganized and rearmed to control entire neighborhoods, committing every possible terrorist act, killing and kidnapping people and destroying public and private property,” the Syrian Foreign Ministry statement said.

The Foreign Ministry, however, expressed the willingness of Damascus to cooperate with Annan and “continue to inform him of the steps we are taking to implement the plan, in the hope of obtaining documented guarantees.”

The Sunday statement was issued one day after Syrians held another demonstration in the capital Damascus in support of the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

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