"Several countries in the region and the West, including France, are continuing up until now to support terrorism by giving political cover to terrorist groups in Syria and the region," he told three visiting rightwing legislators, quoted by state news agency SANA.
Assad said terrorism was "the main cause of the suffering of the Syrian people... along with the embargo imposed on Syria", warning that it was "an international phenomenon which no border can prevent from spreading".
Syrian authorities classify all opponents of the regime as terrorists.
Adopting a tough line on Syria's conflict that has cost more than 250,000 lives since 2011, French President Francois Hollande said last week: "Nothing must be done to bolster Bashar al-Assad, who is the problem, and cannot therefore be the solution."
But with pressure mounting within France to soften the position on Assad and seek a compromise, opposition lawmaker Jean-Frederic Poisson, part of the delegation which arrived in Damascus late Tuesday, said any settlement "necessarily requires a dialogue with the Syrian president".
(AFP)
france24.com
28/10/15
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The Syrian people are suffering from terrorism, destroyed infrastructure and blockade, President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday at a meeting with French parliamentarians in Damascus....
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"Many countries in the region, including France, do not stop supporting terrorist groups and provide them political cover in Syria and in the whole region," the Syrian president said. He stressed that "terrorist and extremist ideas should be treated like a global tendency and cannot be put in certain framework to prevent them from spreading."
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