Homs Governor to UN Envoy: we encourage every effort to achieve reconciliation and spare civilians armed confrontations (2)

HOMS,(ST)_Homs governorate encourages every effort serving continuity of reconciliation and sparing civilians armed confrontations, Homs Governor Talal al-Barazi told the UN envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura.

The Governor briefed the UN envoy on efforts being exerted by Homs governorate to deliver relief aid and ensure basic needs –water and electricity- to unsafe areas in cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and UN organizations.

“The governorates also ensures school books,” al-Barazi said, clarifying that there are 110 schools in Talbeseh, al-Rastan and al-Waer and teachers in these schools regularly receive their salaries.

He added that 2000 state workers are living in 16 temporary shelters in al-Waer quarter in Homs city and they enter and leave the quarter daily.

“The agreement on al-Waer quarter has not completed,” the governor stressed, referring to repeated attacks carried out by terrorist organizations against innocent civilians, especially children, in Homs city.

On his part, De Mistura called for searching for any opportunity to reduce violence and to show people that there are positive changes.

He visited ‘Um al-Zenar’ Church in al-Hamedeyeh quarter in the old city of Homs and ‘Khaled ben al-Waled’ Mosque and ‘al-Safir’ Hotel.

“We believe that the solution in Syria is political, not military,” the diplomat told reporters following his tour in the old city of Homs.

Basma Qaddour