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BEIRUT, April 8 (Reuters) – 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, putting the likelihood of an imminent truce into
doubt.
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.”
U.N.-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.”
(Reporting by Robin Pomeroy)
