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Friday 20 Nov 2015 - 14:42 Makkah mean time-8-2-1437
Damascus, (IINA) - The leader of the Syrian Regime Bashar Al-Assad said that a political process to end the country's civil war cannot begin while it is occupied by "terrorists", BBC reported.
Last week, 19 countries, including Al-Assad's allies, set the date of January 1 as a deadline for the start of peace talks. They signed a UN statement that calls for a ceasefire to be agreed by May 14, 2016. It also calls for free elections to be held a year later.
During an interview with the Italian state television, Al-Assad said: "This timetable starts after starting defeating terrorism. You cannot achieve anything politically while you have the terrorists taking over many areas in Syria". He did not state whether he was referring to ISIS militants or Western-backed rebels.
It is noteworthy that Turkish President Recep Erdogan stated on Thursday that the main culprit for today's humanitarian tragedies and acts of terrorism is the Assad regime, which has killed 380,000 of its people”. He also said that the Syrian Regime is funding ISIS by buying oil from the terrorist group.
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