Turkey has provided support to questionable Syrian rebel forces in the effort to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad, ranking member of the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee Adam Smith told Sputnik.
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When a mention is made of Prague, this would be generally accepted due to the balanced position of the CzechRepublic, he added.
“Syrians will confirm that a peace conference can not be held, say, in France, since that country supports terrorism and supports the war and does not support peace”, he said.
“He has been the problem – he can not be the solution”, Hollande said.
Assad said the government had not ruled out dealing with “terrorists” – a term used by Damascus to describe all insurgents fighting in Syria.
When asked whether Europe should fear the refugees or help them, Assad replied that most Syrians were good people, but there were also terrorists among them, while it is not known how many of them are terrorists.
Also referring to France’s recent commencement of aerial strikes on Syria, he said they were only “to dissipate the feeling of the French” people following the November 13 Daesh attacks that claimed the lives of some 130 people in Paris.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday that working with the Syrian army to fight the so-called “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) takfiri group was not on the cards until he was removed.
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Syria was hit by a violent unrest in mid-March 2011 that later morphed into a multi-front civil war orchestrated and funded by major world powers including the U.S. and France, and by several regional countries, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others.
