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1st LD: Damascus ready to resume truce, participate in intra-Syria talks -- official

Xinhua, October 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Syrian government is ready to resume truce on the condition of guarantees for the evacuation of civilians from the besieged city of Aleppo, said Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem in Moscow on Friday.

"We are ready to resume this cease-fire, but only under the condition that we get guarantees that civilians would be able to use that cease-fire," Muallem said at a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.

He added that Damascus is willing to immediately return to intra-Syria talks "without external interference," obviously in reference to the United States.

Together with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the three ministers are expected to hold a trilateral meeting in Moscow later in the day. Endi