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Al Assad: Idlib deal 'temporary measure'

Syrian president makes comment at meeting of central committee of his Baath party



Syria's President Bashar Al Assad chairs a meeting of the central committee of the ruling Baath party in Damascus on October 7, 2018.
Image Credit: AFP

Damascus: Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad on Sunday said that a Russia-Turkey deal for the last major rebel bastion of Idlib was a “temporary measure”, state news agency SANA reported.

“The agreement is a temporary measure through which the state has realised many achievements on the ground,” SANA reported the president as saying at a meeting of the central committee of his Baath party.

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