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BEIRUT, April 8 (Reuters) – Syrian rebels will respect a
deadline to cease fire on April 10 in line with a U.N.-backed
peace plan to end a year of bloodshed, even if the government
does not pull back its forces from cities, a spokesman said on
Sunday.
“We will commit to the deadline even if they do not pull
back (the forces), we will cease fire as we have pledged to the
U.N.,” said Colonel Qassem Saad al-Deen, spokesman of the joint
command of the Free Syrian Army inside Syria.
“But if they (Syrian forces) fire we will pick up arms again
and fight them,” he told Reuters from inside Syria.
He also said that at least 1,000 people were killed during
last week’s violence in the country, most of them civilians.
(Reporting by Mariam Karouny)
