"Our party however notes very important moment. It is very difficult to define who is al-Nusra or not. Al-Nusra has allies, so we edged UN envoy to apply this offer to all groups in Aleppo," Qadri Jamil said.
He welcomed the UN envoy’s offer, adding that it should have been made a long time ago.
"It is a very positive statement… The idea of corridors initially belonged to the Russian Defence Ministry that in the beginning of the war proposed to set up such a corridors for Aleppo but at that time this proposal was misunderstood. We have to force fighters to leave the cities because they put in jeopardy lives of civilians," Jamil said.
On Thursday, de Mistura proposed to accompany militants from the Nusra Front jihadist group if they wanted to leave Aleppo with arms and to head for the city of Idlib. He added that there were some 900 militants of the group in the war-torn city. According to the UN official, if the military activities in Aleppo continue, the eastern part of the city will be destroyed in two weeks.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, commenting on the proposal, said that it deserved the most careful consideration.
The UN special envoy also asked the Russian and Syrian authorities about their intentions and further steps in eastern Aleppo witnessing heavy fighting.
Aleppo has been a battlefield between government forces, jihadists, as well as numerous opposition groups. Fighting in Aleppo has escalated over the past few weeks, with the Syrian army and local militia forces having managed to encircle large groups of militants in eastern districts of the city.
