Merkel, Macron urge Putin to stop attacks in Syria's Idlib

German and French leaders call for an immediate end to attacks in Syria’s Idlib in a phone call with Russian president Putin

French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet during the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany on July 8, 2017.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, following their meeting in Brussels, held a joint phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discussed recent developments in Idlib, Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for the German government, said in a statement. “They also expressed their readiness to meet with President Putin and Turkish President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan to find a political situation to the crisis,” he said.

Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million others displaced, according to UN figures.Idlib falls within a de-confliction zone laid out in a deal between Turkey and Russia in late 2018. The Syrian regime and its allies, however, have consistently broken the terms of the ceasefire, launching frequent attacks inside the territory where acts of aggression are expressly prohibited.

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