Saturday’s fifth meeting comes in light of yesterday’s unresolved differences and Assad regime’s refusal to adhere to the points of the agreement.
Sources keeping up with the progress of the negotiations had confirmed earlier to Orient Net that the Russian delegation put forward during the fourth meeting with al-Waer negotiating delegation three scenarios to resolve the fighting in the neighborhood. The first option is “death by bombardment and starvation,” while the second one is to negotiate under Assad control, or the third option is the displacement of the fighters with their families towards Syria’s northern territories.
Sources pointed out that the negotiating committee and the Assad delegation reached a preliminary agreement on the third option which entails the departure of 1500 fighters towards either Jarablus city – located in the northern countryside of Aleppo, which was recently liberated by the Operation Euphrates Shield – or Idlib province.
However, Osama Abu Zeid, director of Homs Media Center, clarified to Orient Net that the number of displaced has reached around 20,000 people, attributing the rise in number because of lack of trust in the Assad regime.
Assad regime aims at displacing all the fighters of al-Waer neighborhood – along with their families – towards northern Syria to reoccupy the district, which is considered to be the last stronghold of the opposition in the city of Homs. The displacement is, if its takes place, will be in a repeated scenario of Assad-implemented forced displacement policy in the cities of Damascus countryside and the eastern enclave of Aleppo.
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