MOSCOW. March 3 (Interfax) - More than 30 towns and villages in Syria's Hama Province have joined the national reconciliation process in the country with the Russian Coordination Center's mediation, the head of the Hama Province reconciliation group, Lt. Col. German Rudenko, has said.
On Wednesday, the village of Maarzaf hosted an elders' council, during which, with Russian officers from the Coordination Center for the reconciliation of the opposing sides in Syria acting as mediators, Sheikh Ahmad Mubarak signed an agreement with the local authorities on the village's entry into the peace process.
"It is very scrupulous and fragile work. Here, everything is based on religious and national aspects, but, all in all, during the group's work, some 30 settlements have already signed such application lists on joining the peace process and talks," Rudenko told reporters on Thursday.