Ceasefire Doesn’t Mean Parties 'Stop Using Weapons,' According To Syria's Assad

[uhnope]

Source: Huffington Post

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday any ceasefire did not mean each side had to stop using weapons, and nobody was capable of securing the conditions for one within a week.

"Regarding a ceasefire, a halt to operations, if it happened, it doesn't mean that each party will stop using weapons," Assad said in Damascus in televised comments.

"A ceasefire means in the first place halting the terrorists from strengthening their positions. Movement of weapons, equipment or terrorists, or fortification of positions, will not be allowed," he said.

World powers agreed in Munich on Friday to a "cessation of hostilities", scheduled to start a week later, but Syrian army offensives across the country, backed by Russian air strikes, continue unabated. He said that there were many questions before a ceasefire could happen, including defining who is a terrorist, adding that as far as the state is concerned, anyone who carried a weapon against it was a terrorist.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/syria-assad-ceasefire-weapons_us_56c23aefe4b0b40245c77edb

[Saviolo]

1. Sounds like a high-schooler

...making up his own rules and stating them as fact.

"No, no! If the teacher is 10 minute... no, 7! 7 minutes late, we're totally allowed to go, by law."

Making sure that the words are defined in a way that will best serve his own needs.

[Oneironaut]

2. That's literally what a ceasefire means

[christx30]

3. Maybe they are going to switch to

water based weapons?