From March 15, the Russian and Turkish armies will conduct joint patrols on the Syrian highway M4, a strategic axis that passes through the Idlib region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today.
"Joint Russian-Turkish patrols on the M4 highway will begin on March 15," Lavrov said, reading the main points of the cease-fire agreement in Syria's Idlib province agreed at today's hours-long meeting between Russian and Turkish presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Kremlin.
The two countries' foreign ministers said the agreement includes a ceasefire that must take effect at midnight tonight along existing battle lines.
The agreement also envisages the establishment of a 12 kilometer wide security corridor along the M4 motorway. The corridor will be jointly patrolled by Russian and Turkish troops from March 15.
Putin and Erdogan announced today in Moscow that they had reached an agreement that could end the fighting in northwestern Syria and announced that a ceasefire would take effect in Idlib at midnight tonight. They gave no further details, but said their foreign ministers would read a joint document later.
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