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Syrian president calls for BRICS assistance in ending violence

Syrian president calls for BRICS assistance in ending violence
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called on the BRICS group of emerging powers to help “stop the violence” in the Arab country.

“I call on the BRICS leaders to work together to immediately stop the violence in Syria in order to guarantee the success of a political solution,” Assad said in a message sent to the group which held the second day of its fifth summit in the South African city of Durban on Wednesday.

The Syrian president added that ending nearly two years of deadly unrest in Syria requires a “clear international will to dry up the sources of terrorism and stop funding and arming” foreign-backed militants fighting against Damascus.

President Assad said his country is subjected to “acts of terrorism backed by Arab, regional and Western nation,” urging the BRICS leaders to “work for an immediate cessation of violence.”

Earlier in the day, the BRICS member states also voiced ‘deep concern’ over nearly two years of ongoing crisis in Syria.

The group’s leaders urged a “Syrian-led political process” to solve the crisis through dialogue “that meets the legitimate aspirations of all sections of Syrian society and respect for Syrian independence.”

The Syrian leader made the remarks a day after the country’s opposition bloc, known as the National Coalition, took Syria’s seat during the Arab League annual summit held in the Qatari capital, Doha.

The League also authorized its members to send all the means of what it called self-defense, including weapons, to militants fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Many people, including large numbers of soldiers and security personnel, have been killed in the violence that broke out in Syria in March 2011.

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