MOSCOW, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told Moscow Saturday that Paris supports the release of a Russia-U.S. deal on the Syrian settlement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Earlier in the day, in a phone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the French top diplomat welcomed the agreement reached between Moscow and Washington on the Syrian crisis, and voiced Paris' support for Moscow's proposal to make those documents public, the ministry said.
On Sept. 10, Russia and the United States announced a landmark agreement on a nationwide cease-fire in Syria, which both sides hope would lead to their countries' military cooperation to end more than five years of bloodshed there.
The week-long truce, which started on Monday, demands all warring sides in Syria stop attacks and airstrikes, and allow access to besieged areas, including the northern city of Aleppo.
It also includes improving humanitarian aid access and a joint military operation against banned terrorist groups.
On Friday, in a phone talk with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Lavrov called on the United States to make the agreement public. However, Washington has so far shown no interest in doing so.
