Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Ankara had assured Moscow that it did not plan to launch a new military operation in Syria despite earlier comments, the TASS news agency reported. 

Turkey's state-owned Anadolu agency on Monday cited Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying Ankara would launch a new military operation in northeast Syria if the area was not cleared of what he called terrorists. 

"Yesterday, there was contact between members of the Turkish government and our ambassador, and they assured our envoy that this was a misunderstanding and that no one in Ankara called in question the work being done by Russia," Tass reported citing Lavrov. 

"Neither Mr. Cavusoglu, my colleague and friend nor Mr. (Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim) Kalin spoke about any resumption of the Peace Spring operation," he added.

"The withdrawal of armed units of the Kurdish forces has taken place," he stressed. "Even if some small areas still remain there, this effort will be brought to an end. And the fact that everything is fully in line with a memorandum backed by Presidents (Vladimir Putin) and (Recep Tayyip) Erdogan, is confirmed by regular and ongoing joint patrols of a 10-kilometer zone by Russia's military police and Turkish counterparts as agreed in Sochi on October 22." 

Turkish and Russian troops have held eight rounds of joint patrols in northern Syria under their deal. 

(With inputs from Reuters)