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		</div><p>Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moallem has warned that foreign ground troops entering Syria would “return home in wooden coffins”.</p>
<p>His comments came after Saudi Arabia said earlier this week it would be willing to send troops as part of a US-led military campaign against Islamic State (IS) extremists, who control large parts of Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p>Mr al-Moallem said conventional wisdom and logic would suggest the idea of Saudi troops in Syria is far-fetched, but that “with the crazy Saudi leadership, nothing is far-fetched”.</p>
<p>He told a news conference in Damascus: “Any ground intervention in Syria, without the consent of the Syrian government, will be considered an aggression that should be resisted by every Syrian citizen.</p>
<p>“I regret to say that they will return home in wooden coffins.”</p>
<p>Mr al-Moallem’s comments capped a week that saw the collapse of UN-led efforts to launch indirect peace talks between the Syrian government and an opposition delegation in Geneva.</p>
<p>The talks broke down in large part because of Syrian government offensives, including on the outskirts of the city of Aleppo.</p>
<p>The offensive, aimed at encircling rebel strongholds in Aleppo, was backed by intense Russian air strikes and sent thousands of residents fleeing toward a closed Turkish border.</p>
<p>Mr al-Moallem said the government advances signalled that the five-year-old Syria war is nearing its end.</p>
<p>“I can say, from the achievements for our armed forces &#8230; that we are now on track to end the conflict,” he said.</p>
<p>“Like it or not, our battlefield achievements indicate that we are headed toward the end of the crisis.”</p>
<p>Opposition representatives have said they cannot be expected to negotiate in Geneva at a time when the Syrian government and its allies, including Russia, are escalating attacks on rebel strongholds.</p>
<p>Mr al-Moallem dismissed the representatives of the Saudi-backed opposition in Geneva, suggesting they followed orders from Saudi Arabia and were “not real Syrians”.</p>
<p>He alleged the opposition had never intended to negotiate seriously. “They did not come to have dialogue, they did not have such orders,” he said.</p>
<p>Mr al-Moallem said the Syrian government was ready to have dialogue with Syrians, but without preconditions.</p>
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