Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday that foreign parties were funding "armed terrorist groups" to destabilize Syria and intent on blocking any political solution.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday that foreign parties were funding "armed terrorist groups" to destabilize Syria and intent on blocking any political solution, the state news agency SANA reported.

The president made the statement in a meeting with a visiting top Russian MP, Alexei Pushkov, head of the international affairs committee of Russia's lower house of parliament.

Assad thanked Russia for its support of his country which he said was being "targeted by armed terrorist groups receiving funding and arms from foreign parties, aiming to destabilize Syria."

The same parties were determined "to block all efforts to reach a solution, especially with the reforms being brought in," he added.

The Russian MP, for his part, accused "some influential big states" of meddling into Syria's affairs, using humanitarian aid as a cover,” SANA reported.

"Humanitarian intervention ends up non-humanitarian," he said, adding that the lower house "rejects such military interventions."

He accused major powers of "using international organizations to satisfy their interests," adding that Russia's position stems from its commitment to uphold the principles of international law and the interests of the Syrian people, stressing the importance of the Security Council should not be biased to any party in the Syrian issue.

In a fair stance, Moscow and Beijing earlier this month vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning the violence by Assad's regime.

The visit by Pushkov, a member of the ruling United Russia party and former television commentator, comes after Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks in Damascus earlier this month with President Assad.