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The United States accused Syria, and because you accused you have to bring evidence [of chemical weapons], this first of all. We have to find evidences when we are there.

Bashar al-Assad

Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.
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Goal Growth Hurt
Anyone who’s not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you’re advancing ?
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Military Use Weapons
I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don’t feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.
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Kind Sadness Thinking
It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
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Difficult East Explosions Middle
We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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Mass Destruction Nuclear
Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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Attitude Matter States
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Diversity Fabric Social
If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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Anyone People Regard World
[It is important] to have stability and to have security, which means humanitarian equals fighting terrorists. You cannot talk about humanitarian aid and supporting the terrorists at the same time. You cannot, you have to choose.
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Fighting Important Mean
Syria is in a state of war since its land was occupied for more than four decades, and the nature of the frontier in Syria implies that most of the army is in inhabited areas, most of the centers are in inhabited areas.
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Army Land War
It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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Democracy Persons Society
There’s a video about one of those women who they consider as rebel or fighter who worked with those terrorists and she said “they didn’t tell us how to use the chemical weapons” and one of those weapons exploded in one of the tunnels and killed twelve. That’s what she said.
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Rebel Tunnels Twelve
[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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Later Sooner
From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
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Country Support Years
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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Country Rebel United States
In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.
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Giving Party Up Years

The United States accused Syria, and because you accused you have to bring evidence [of chemical weapons], this first of all. We have to find evidences when we are there.

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