SYRIA DEMANDS WRITTEN GUARANTEE FOR TROOP PULLBACK

Syria said on Sunday it wants "written guarantees" that insurgents will stop fighting before it implements a troop pullback agreed by President Bashar al-Assad.

Syria demands written guarantee for troop pullback
Posted 08.04.2012 09:46:51 UTC
Updated 08.04.2012 09:46:51 UTC

Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said in a statement earlier reports that Damascus "confirmed that it will pull back its troops from and around cities on April 10 is a wrong explanation."

UN-Arab peace envoy Kofi Annan, he said, "has not delivered until now written guarantees regarding the approval of terrorist armed groups to end violence and readiness to lay down its weapons."

Reuters