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As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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