; Whereas, on March 5, 2020, Turkey and Russia signed a protocol introducing a ceasefire which includes a security corridor and joint Russian-Turkish patrols along the M4 Highway starting on March 15, 2020; Whereas that protocol also emphasized that the targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure cannot be justified, and stressed the importance of protecting civilians, preventing the displacement of the Syrian people, facilitating the safe and voluntary return of refugees and internally displaced persons, and ensuring humanitarian assistance to all Syrians in need; Whereas, on June 5, 2020, Ambassador Jeffery stated in a public briefing, So the Turks are much more involved. The ceasefire is holding. Even the Russians that I’ve talked to basically agree that they’re seeing fewer attacks from the terrorist groups—there are several of them: Hurras al-Din, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham—and the Turks are working pretty aggressively against them. They’re taking losses and they’re inflicting losses to try to keep these people under control, which has been part of this last ceasefire and the early one from September 2018. So that’s a good sign. It deprives the regime of an excuse to launch another offensive. ; Whereas, on July 7, 2020, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic released a report documenting war crimes by the Russian Federation, the Assad regime, and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, between November 2019 and June 2020