MOSCOW, November 28. /TASS/. Russia is fulfilling its obligations regarding Syria in accordance with the Sochi memorandum and it is doing its utmost to ensure that the north of that country should not be a source of violence, Russia’s special presidential representative for the Syrian settlement, Alexander Lavrentiev, told TASS in an interview.
"The Russian side is fulfilling its obligations. We are doing everything possible to ensure that violence should not come from those territories where Syrian troops are stationed and from the border zone," he said.
"Of course, we really cannot ensure the complete pullout of all Kurdish forces from the 30-kilometer strip," Lavrentiev admitted. "But the most important thing that we are doing and what we have achieved already is these units do not use force."
The Russian presidential envoy said there had been "some cases of provocations."
"But in general, even those Kurdish units that are located on that territory do not take any action against Turkey on Turkish territory," Lavrentiev concluded.
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that Turkey had conducted an air operation in Syria and Iraq in connection with Russia's "refusal" to fulfill its promises to achieve the pullback of Kurdish forces from the border.