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The departure of Syria’s ex-president Bashar al-Assad, “in the manner he left, cannot considered anything but a very positive development,” President Nikos Christodoulides told a gathering in Athens on Friday.
“No one, absolutely no one can justify the barbaric behaviour, the daily violation of human rights in Syria during Assad’s tenure,” Christodoulides said in a speech at the annual conference of the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations.