UN official enthusiastic to ban flights in Syria

MOSCOW - 8 July 2017: UN Secretary General's official spokesman Stephane Dujarric offered an enthusiastic reaction to the agreement Russia and the US had reached as regards the no-fly areas in the southern zone of de-escalation in Syria.

The deal would require special scrutiny, he told TASS news agency adding that the UN would welcome any Russian-American agreement that would impart dynamics to the process of pan-Syrian negotiations ahead of another round of talks in Geneva and would help improve the situation for rank-and-file Syrians.

"We have yet to see details of the deal announced, but we would welcome any agreement that could lead to an improvement of conditions for the Syrian people and also provide positive momentum ahead of the Geneva talks," Dujarric told TASS.