{"id":501932,"date":"2025-10-15T16:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501932\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:42:14","slug":"russia-welcomes-gaza-ceasefire-progress-urges-full-implementation-of-sharm-el-sheikh-summit-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501932\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia welcomes Gaza ceasefire progress, urges full implementation of Sharm el-Sheikh summit agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Moscow says Israel-Hamas truce and prisoner exchange mark \u2018positive changes,\u2019 calls for adherence to commitments brokered by Egypt, Qatar, US, and T\u00fcrkiye<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Implementation of two-state solution will bring lasting peace to all peoples of Middle East,&#8217; says Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday that Moscow welcomes the \u201cpositive developments\u201d in the Gaza Strip following the implementation of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, including troop withdrawals and prisoner exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to note that there have been positive changes in the development of the situation in the Gaza Strip, associated with the successful start of the implementation of the agreement between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire and the exchange of detainees,\u201d Zakharova said at a briefing in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that the Israeli army withdrew to agreed-upon lines, Hamas returned all surviving Israeli hostages, and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners were released.<\/p>\n<p>Russia hopes that the agreements reached through the mediation of Egypt, Qatar, the United States, and T\u00fcrkiye \u201cwill be strictly and fully observed,\u201d she said, emphasizing the need to ensure humanitarian aid, facilitate the return of displaced persons, and rebuild Gaza\u2019s destroyed civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Zakharova said Moscow has &#8220;consistently advocated for a cessation of hostilities and a political-diplomatic settlement&#8221; since the beginning of the Gaza crisis. However, she added that Western countries have blocked Russia&#8217;s draft UN Security Council resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>She stressed that Russia will continue coordination with regional partners \u201cto achieve long-term stabilization\u201d in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone and the Middle East at large.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said the ultimate goal should be a \u201ccomprehensive settlement of the Palestinian issue\u201d based on international law and relevant UN resolutions. \u201cThe implementation of the two-state solution will bring lasting peace to all peoples of the Middle East,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moscow says Israel-Hamas truce and prisoner exchange mark \u2018positive changes,\u2019 calls for adherence to commitments brokered by Egypt,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[5340,2194,835,837,16257,332,164585],"class_list":{"0":"post-501932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-hamas","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-maria-zakharova","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-sharm-el-sheikh-summit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115379184901324331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}