Iran optimistic about developments in Syria

The Iranian deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs says developments are moving on the right track in Syria after a ceasefire deal came into effect.

“If countries help the process of fight against terrorism and the process of ceasefire with serious determination, it can be said that the Syrian developments are moving on the right track,” Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Tuesday.

The ongoing ceasefire in Syria has opened up a better prospect for holding negotiations to find a political solution to the crisis in the war-stricken country, the Iranian diplomat said in a meeting with Wolfgang Amadeus Bruelhart, Assistant State Secretary for Middle East and North Africa Division at the Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs.

A ceasefire agreed by the United States and Russia took effect in Syria on February 27 midnight Damascus time. The Syrian government also accepted the terms of the truce on condition that military efforts against Daesh and the al-Nusra Front Takfiri terrorists, who are not included in the ceasefire agreement, continue.

The ceasefire agreement in Syria has revived hopes that the truce would lead to an end of nearly five years of war in the country.

EA