Talk of political solution to Syria crisis is ‘hollow and meaningless’ – President Assad

President Bashar Assad has accused Syrian rebels’ allies of direct intervention, saying that any talks of a political solution to the four-year crisis in the Arab country would be hollow without recognizing the need to “combat terrorism”

“Any political presentation that does not essentially rely on combating terrorism and ending it is practically ineffective,” Assad said in a speech broadcast by Al Manar TV channel on Sunday. “Countries supporting terrorists have increased their support to them recently and in some cases, they directly intervened to back them.”

In his first political address in a year, President Assad said that “changes of the West cannot be counted on as long as they follow the double-standards policy. We have not depended but on ourselves since the first day, hoping good intentions from the real friends of the Syrian people,” reported Syria Online.’

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