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In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons].

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[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.
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Betrayed Jesus Principles
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
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Decision People Political
We’re not like the American administration, we’re not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we’ll announce it.
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Government Media Reality
As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own… Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.
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Government Lebanon
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
Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
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Army Country Government
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.
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East Forever Middle Problem
We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.
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Country People Way
Something that many officials in the West don’t see or don’t realize or don’t acknowledge – and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.
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Acknowledge Decade Terrorist Interest Something
We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional government. Then you have final elections, parliamentary elections, and you’re going to have presidential elections.
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Government Party Presidential
History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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Groups People Support
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
I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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Afford Making Mistake
Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn’t have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.
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Country International Invade Law Nato
Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.
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Country Order President
There’s a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said “this is how we’re going to kill the Syrian people.”
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People Rabbits Video
[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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Borders Hezbollah Reason
From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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Army Country Government
Terrorists have been supported by tens of foreign countries, so Syria alone wouldn’t be able to face this kind of war without the help of its friends.
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Country Face Help War
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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Eras President Reality
Of course, when Secretary-General is objective, he can play an important role in dealing with different officials in the United Nations in order to bring the policies of the different states – mainly Russia and the United States – toward more cooperation and more stability regarding Syria.
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Order Play Russia
When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.
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Government Mean Two
In the eighties, we asked for international coalition against terrorism after the Muslim Brotherhood crisis in Syria when they started killing, of course they were defeated at that time. We asked for the same thing. So, this is a long-term policy that we base our policy on for years now.
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Brotherhood Long Years
Any external support, if you want to call it support, let’s use this world, is… how to say… it’s going to be additional, but it’s not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.
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Support Use World
When you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn’t matter if he’s Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.
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Country Matter Religion
It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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Accomplish Country Human More Resources
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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In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons].

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In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons].

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