Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused France of “supporting terrorism” and said that he saw Prague as a possible venue for signing any future peace deal to end his country’s four-year civil war, in comments broadcast Monday on Czech TV. “They have invested for years now in keeping Assad in power”.
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“This is the first step, which is necessary to take, when starting to fight terrorism. But of course you have infiltration of terrorists among them, that is true”.
The Syrian leader is backed by Russian Federation and Iran and he praised Vladimir Putin for launching a bombing campaign backing Assad’s forces in September. “So the failure of Erdogan in Syria, the failure of his terrorist groups means his political demise”, he added. Turning to a showdown between Turkey and Russia over Ankara’s downing of a Russian fighter jet fighter on the Turkish-Syrian border, Assad said opposition supporter Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was playing with fire. Especially if you think about every person of those Syrians who left Syria has sad story behind him. From this (rational) way of looking at the situation, it’s a loss.
“ISIL is going to continue to be a deadly organization because of its social media, the resources it has and the networks of experienced fighters that it possesses”, Obama said, using one of several acronyms for the extremist group. Undermine your society and your country. The next “day the situation will be better and in a few months we will have full peace in Syria, definitely”. “This is Erdogan’s failure in Syria”.
Terrorists are financed and supplied weapons mostly through Turkey with support of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Syrian President said. “If you look at the relation with the West, in 2005, I was the killer”. “The main message I got is that I actually think we are going to solve this thing”, he said of the climate initiative.
“If they wanted to learn from what happened in Paris recently, why didn’t they learn from Charlie Hebdo (attack)?”
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Obama said he expects that diplomatic negotiations in Vienna to pursue a political solution to Syria’s civil war will move forward at the same time that the U.S.-led coalition applies greater pressure to defeat IS. What’s under the water is much bigger.
