Assad says France’s ‘mistaken policies’ helping terror

Syrian President Bashar Assad is calling on France to change policies that he says have contributed to the “spread of terrorism.”

In a meeting with a delegation of French lawmakers in Damascus the day after the Paris attacks, Assad says France’s “mistaken policies… have contributed to the spread of terrorism.”

He says French President Francois Hollande “should change his policy” on Syria.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (left) speaks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (right) during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on October 20, 2015. (AFP/Ria Novosti/Kremlin Pool/Alexey Druzhinin)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (left) speaks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (right) during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on October 20, 2015. (AFP/Ria Novosti/Kremlin Pool/Alexey Druzhinin)

“The question that is being asked throughout France today is, was France’s policy over the past five years the right one? The answer is no.”

–AFP

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