Halqi made the remarks during a meeting with Chairman of Lattakia Secretariat Council for National Firms, Hussam al-Din Khalasi on Sunday, according to official SANA news agency.

The Syrian PM pointed out to the important role of the civil society activities to mobilize energies and confront the Wahhabi, Takfiri criminal mentality and preserve the Syrian national identity.

He talked about the efforts exerted by the Ministerial committee tasked with implementing the political program to resolve the crisis in Syria and the committee’s meetings with different spectrums of the Syrian society who had consensus that dialogue is the only way out of the crisis.

“The Syrian people have selected the political way and dialogue among them to draw the future of their country,” al-Halqi said, adding that Geneva II conference has to lead for an international consensus on combating terrorism.

The Geneva II conference on Syria kicked off in the Swiss town of Montreux on January 22, aiming to finding a political solution to the ongoing deadly crisis in the Arab country.

The war in Syria started in March 2011, when pro-reform protests turned into a massive insurgency following intervention of western and regional states.

The unrest, which took in terrorist groups from across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, has transpired as one of the bloodiest conflicts in recent history.

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