Text of Legal Agreement: Terms on the Departure of Armed Factions from the Remaining Eastern Neighbourhoods of the City of Aleppo

• Country/entity

  Syria
  
• Region

  Middle East and North Africa
  
• Agreement name

  Text of Legal Agreement: Terms on the Departure of Armed Factions from the Remaining Eastern Neighbourhoods of the City of Aleppo
• Date

  13 Dec 2016
• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed
• Interim arrangement

  Yes
• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/local conflict ( Syrian Conflicts (1948 - ) (1976 - 2005) (2011 - ) )
• Stage

  Implementation/renegotiation
• Conflict nature

  Inter-group
• Peace process

  Intra-Syrian Process (state/non-state)
• Parties

  Representative of the Syrian Government;
  Representative of the Russian Government;
  Negotiating part from the State;
  Negotiating part from the opposition (Sheikh ‘Amr al-Rahmun);
• Third parties

  -
• Description

  -

• Agreement document

  SY_161213_Text of Legal Agreement Terms on the Departure of Armed Factions_EN.pdf | Download PDF
• Agreement document (original language)

  SY_161213_Text of Legal Agreement Terms on the Departure of Armed Factions_AR.pdf | Download PDF

Local agreement properties

• Process type

  Isolated example
  
• Rationale

  -> Local issues only; no external support mechanism; no culture of signing The signing of the agreement was triggered by the military advance and the threat to commit a massacre formulated by the Syrian government, which unleashed popular discontent at the local and international level. No mechanism supported the negotiation. The agreement deals with highly localised issues as it concerns the evacuation of some neighbourhoods of Aleppo.
• Is there a documented link to a national peace process?

  Yes
• Link to national process: articulated rationale

  The agreement involves representatives from the Syrian and the Russian governments. Although it does not mention any link to the national peace process, it seems that this agreement was supported by the local and international community as a means to defuse current and future tensions between the Syrian president and Syrian citizens. It seems that this agreement ensured that national peace could be reached at a national level in a near or distant future.
• Name of Locale

  Eastern Neighbourhoods of the City of Aleppo
• Nature Of Locale

  Smaller
• GPS Lat/Long (DD)

  36.210292, 37.094510
• Participant type

  Central state actor
  Domestic religious organisation/leader or other elder
  
• Mediator, facilitator or similar

  No mention of mediator or similar

Local issues

Text of Legal Agreement Terms on the Departure of Armed Factions from the Remaining Eastern Neighbourhoods of the City of Aleppo

On the date of 13/12/2016

Number 1:

Only the gunmen with individual weapons will pull out.

Number 2:

The gunmen and the civilians who want to depart from Aleppo towards West Aleppo will depart.

Number 3:

The Syrian and Russian forces will ensure that they will be guaranteed a peaceful departure, according to the Raqqa agreement.

The gunmen and their workers will get off and the buses will return.

Number 4:

The two sides have pledged to have a ceasefire during the departure of the gunmen.

This has been guaranteed by the negotiating part, represented by Sheikh ‘Amr al-Rahmun.

Representative of the Syrian Government

Representative of the Russian Government

Negotiating part from the State

Negotiating part from the gunmen