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Assad says Syrian parliament elections blow to 'terrorism'

 

DAMASCUS - Syrians in government-controlled areas cast ballots Wednesday for a new 250-member parliament that is expected to serve as a rubber stamp for President Bashar Assad in a vote which Western leaders and members of Syria's opposition have denounced as a sham and a provocation that undermines the Geneva peace talks.

 

"This war is not only about terrorism," Assad told a state TV reporter. "It is true that terrorism managed to destroy much of the infrastructure and it managed to shed lots of blood, but it failed to realize the main goal, which is to strike at the main infrastructure in Syria, the social infrastructure and the national identity."

 

Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said after voting that "we in Syria always say that the Syrian people decide their destiny and today they are proving practically the accuracy of this saying."

 


פרסום ראשון: 04.13.16, 17:48