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The President added that after Geneva 2, they began the military escalation and increased support for terrorists until we reached the presidential elections which dealt a blow for them, particularly in the volume of participation inside and outside Syria, it was a blow because it was an assertion on constitution in the first degree… the Syrian people has committed to constitution and has proven it is united and has a homeland and a state in its civilized concept.
“At that time, and after that stage, they shifted to move ISIS into the central, north and eastern regions in order to disperse the efforts of the Syrian army which was advancing steadily at that period,” the President said.
On the proposal of cease-fire, the President said that when the west talks about cease-fire, “I believe the answer is very clear; when gunmen suffer, when they are defeated, the term cease-fore happens between armies and states, but it doesn’t go between a state and terrorists, so this term is wrong, it might be a halt for operations, a halt for combatant acts… cease-fire means actually the stop of terrorists’ boosting of their positions, it is not allowed to transport their weapons or munitions, it is not allowed to boost their positions, all of these things are unacceptable.”
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