BEIRUT: The following are excerpts from President Bashar al-Assad's speech in Damascus on Sunday in the capital's Opera House.
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"We will have dialogue with all those who opposed us politically and all who have rejected our positions as long as their positions were not based on trying to destroy our principles and national foundations."
"We will have dialogue with all parties and individuals that did not sell our country to the foreigner. The political solution will be along the following lines:
"The first stage: First of all, regional and foreign countries must stop funding, arming and harbouring militants at the same time that gunmen stop all terrorist operations in order to ease the return of displaced Syrians to their original homes in safety and security."
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"We will have dialogue with all those who opposed us politically and all who have rejected our positions as long as their positions were not based on trying to destroy our principles and national foundations."
"We will have dialogue with all parties and individuals that did not sell our country to the foreigner. The political solution will be along the following lines:
"The first stage: First of all, regional and foreign countries must stop funding, arming and harbouring militants at the same time that gunmen stop all terrorist operations in order to ease the return of displaced Syrians to their original homes in safety and security."
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