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21 g. Reintegrating competent and experienced defected personnel and integrating all revolutionary groups into professional national structures; h. Protecting the borders and border crossings and preventing the entrance of non-Syrian fighters or assistance to banned groups; i. Forming national committees to monitor the ceasefire and report to the joint military council which shall report and submit recommendations to the TGB; j. The ceasefire committees shall report violations to the joint military council which refers such reports to the TGB to address and take appropriate decisions in coordination with the UN which shall supervise the ceasefire upon request from the TGB; k. The joint military council shall work with local military structures including local military councils to collect arms and ensure that arms possession is the sole right of the state. 33. Counter-terrorism: As of the moment of its formation, the TGB, by virtue of the agreement, shall have the supreme authority over combating sectarian militias, mercenaries, and terrorist organizations. It shall be entitled to seek assistance from the international community by virtue of a decision taken by a two-thirds majority of its membership. It shall also set the general policy for combating terrorism and extremist ideology. 34. This vision shall not prevent the continuation of the efforts of the international coalition to combat terrorism within a framework to be agreed upon with the TGB. 35. The Syrian national congress and legislative authority during the transitional period: the People’s Assembly shall be dissolved at the beginning of the transitional period and the TGB shall assume legislative authority during the transitional period. 36. The TGB shall call for a Syrian national congress within no more than three months. The congress shall be comprised of people representing the various components of the Syrian people, civil society organizations as well as religious, political, intellectual, and union figures with significant weight at the national level. It shall also represent Syrians in exile and diaspora in accordance wit