Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi yesterday appealed to both sides in Syria’s conflict to cease fire for Eid Al-Adha holiday this week after meeting President Bashar Assad, even as a deadly blast rocked Damascus.
In Syria’s capital, a bomb exploded outside a police station in a Christian quarter of the Old City, killing 13 people, the state news agency SANA reported, blaming rebel.
“I appeal to everyone to take a unilateral decision to cease hostilities on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha and that this truce be respected from today or tomorrow,” he said.
The envoy told reporters that the cease-fire call was his “personal initiative, not a blueprint for peace.”
Brahimi added he had contacted political opposition leaders inside and outside Syria and armed groups in the country. “We found them to be very favorable” to the idea of a truce, he said, in a cautious note of optimism.
Brahimi eyes Eid truce after meeting Assad; blast kills 13
Brahimi eyes Eid truce after meeting Assad; blast kills 13
