The truce plan, devised by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, was supposed to go
into effect on Tuesday, with a withdrawal of Syrian forces from population
centres, followed within 48 hours by a ceasefire by both sides in the
uprising against four decades of repressive rule by the Assad family.
But on Sunday, Syria‘s
Foreign Ministry said that ahead of any troop pullback, the government needs
written guarantees from opposition fighters that they will lay down their
weapons.
The commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army, Riad al-Asaad, said that while
his group is ready to abide by a truce, it does
not recognise the regime “and for that reason we will not give guarantees.”
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