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Damascus Ready to Continue Dialogue With Peaceful Opposition

© AFP 2023 / ACHILLEAS ZAVALLISSyrian fighters with the Free Syria Army (FSA) man one of their positions during skirmishes with government forces in the Seif al-Dawla district in Aleppo on September 4, 2012
Syrian fighters with the Free Syria Army (FSA) man one of their positions during skirmishes with government forces in the Seif al-Dawla district in Aleppo on September 4, 2012 - Sputnik International
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It is important to have dialogue with peaceful opposition to bring together the efforts by Syrian to bring the military conflict in the country to an end, Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader Halqi reaffirmed.

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DAMASCUS (Sputnik) – The Syrian government is ready to continue dialogue with the peaceful opposition for the sake of uniting efforts in the struggle against terrorism and other threats, Syrian Prime Minister Wael Nader Halqi told Sputnik.

"We believe there are no problems in dialogue with the political opposition, which is peaceful and popular, if this dialogue is aimed at bringing together the efforts by Syrians in the struggle against threats to our government, with terrorism being at the top [of such threats,]" Halqi said.

Halqi said that "any political solution concerns the Syrian people, and no foreign party has the right to interfere in it, thus the national interests of the Syrian people should be the basis of any peace agreements."

Syria has been engulfed in civil war since March 2011. Damascus has been engaged in battles on multiple fronts, against the so-called moderate opposition and numerous extremist insurgent groups, including Islamic State.

In early May, UN-backed consultations between parties to the Syrian crisis took place in Geneva, Switzerland, and were followed by a meeting between the majority of representatives of the Syrian opposition later in May in the Kazakh capital, Astana.

The hostilities in Syria have killed over 220,000 people, according to UN estimates, and displaced over 11 million, making it the globe's most dire humanitarian crisis.

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