Syria said on Tuesday it will not leave its citizens hostages by terrorists in eastern Aleppo, stressing it will exert all possible efforts to liberate them.
Damascus rejects any attempt by any side calling for ceasefire in eastern Aleppo unless it guarantees the exit of all terrorists from it, SANA news agency quoted a statement released by foreign ministry as saying.
Eradicating terrorism is the sole way for putting an end to the suffering of the innocent civilians and providing necessities of decent life, on top of which security and stability, the statement said.
Meanwhile, Syria expresses gratitude to Russia and China for vetoing a draft resolution talking on a truce but does not guarantee the exit of the gunmen from eastern Aleppo, which gives those terrorists the chance to re-mobilize themselves and repeat their crimes, according to the statement.
On the other hand, the statement condemned in the strongest terms the attack by Aleppo militants on a Russian field hospital in Aleppo.
“These criminal attacks clarify again the terrorist nature of the armed groups, which the West insists on describing as moderate.”
Source: SANA
