• Syria protests Turkish "violations of sanctity and unity of Syrian land" to the UN
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[QUOTE]The Syrian Foreign Ministry has condemned Turkey’s “repeated crimes and attacks” on the Syrian people as well as violations of Syrian sovereignty and territorial integrity, in two letters to the UN, Syria’s SANA news agency reports.In the letters, the Syrian authorities ask the UNSC to exert influence on Ankara and force it to put an end to “repeated crimes and attacks against the Syrian people and violations of the sanctity and unity of Syria’s territory,” SANA writes.The statement comes a day after SANA reported that 24 people, including 11 children aged under six and eight women, were killed in Turkish airstrikes and shelling of the northern Syrian town of Al Bab.Also the head of Syria’s government delegation at peace talks in Astana accused Turkey’s delegation and Syrian rebels, who arrived on Thursday –the last day of the meeting,of trying to disrupt the negotiations by refusing to agree to a communique.Bashar Ja’afari said the rebels and their Turkish backers had a “clear will to disrupt the Astana meetings”, and that Ankara must pull its troops out of Syria and close its border to jihadist fighters if it was to be a real guarantor of a Turkish-Russian ceasefire agreed at the end of last year.[/QUOTE] [url]https://www.rt.com/news/377697-syria-condemn-turkey-un/[/url] [url]http://www.euronews.com/2017/02/16/head-of-syrian-government-delegation-says-turkey-rebels-aim-to-disrupt-astana-talks[/url] EDIT:I also wanted to put "and accuses Turkey of trying to distupt Astana peace talks" but i ran out of room.
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