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The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.
Bashar al-Assad
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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
Military Leader
Ophthalmologist
President Of Syria
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Sham city
Assad
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Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don't accept.
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies you have everything in Middle East region now.
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We are worried that rebels are taking control in many countries, and look at the results now. Are you satisfied as an American ? What are the results ? Nothing. Very bad - nothing good.
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In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.
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Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don't trust the government, they should go the other way.
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When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.
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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house it's a very primitive gas. So, it's not something complicated.
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Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.
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At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn't live in the current time. He's out of touch with the reality.
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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