Assad said the smuggling of fighters from Saudi Arabia via Turkey

Syria’s President suggested the smuggling of terrorists into Syria from Saudi Arabia and Turkey. He stated this in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais, which published Sunday, February 21.

“Saudi Arabia is the main financier of these terrorists. They are put on planes, sent to Turkey and from there to Syria,” said Assad. He added that “Turkey sent terrorists… and from the beginning involved in the events in Syria”.

In this regard, he found it impossible to land operation of the Turkish or Saudi troops on its territory. “It’s an excuse. If this happens, we will treat them as terrorists. We protect our country. No one has the right to invade Syria — from the political or military point of view,” said Assad.

He said that foreigners fighting on the side of armed groups, the Syrian authorities are treated like other terrorists.

However, the President promised Amnesty to disarmed opposition groups. “We will declare an Amnesty, and it happened in the past two years and in recent years more and more,” said Assad.

He noted that “from the point of view of the law and the Constitution, all who will turn their guns against the people and the government — terrorists — in their own country, in our country or any other country in the world”.

The negotiations on the settlement of the Syrian conflict in Geneva suspended to 25 February. “The UN cannot afford to procedural issues became more important than the resolution of the humanitarian problems of the Syrian people. So I decided to make a temporary pause. It’s not the end of the negotiations,” said the UN special envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura.

The head of the delegation of the government of Syria Bashar ja’afari said that the talks were suspended because of the intention of the opposition to leave them. According to him, such an instruction they were given, the authorities of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.

The opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels demanding his resignation, started in 2011 and escalated into a full scale civil war. The rebels consider the President guilty of the hard suppression of the initially peaceful protests and the use of the army against unarmed demonstrators in the first phase of internal conflict.

During the Syrian war gained strength, terrorist organizations, including prohibited in Russia grouping “Islamic state” seized part of the territory of the country and of neighbouring Iraq.

In Syria since March 2011 year armed conflict continues, which, according to the UN, killed more than 220 thousand people. Government troops to confront a gang of militants belonging to various armed groups.

From 30 September 2015 support Assad’s forces have Russian air force and Navy. Alliance from 65 countries led by the United States conducts bombing inside Iraq since August 2014 and support Kurdish forces fighting on the ground against ISIS. A month later they started attacking the coalition on positions of terrorists in Syria.
[rushincrash.com]
21/2/16
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