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We have to wait and see when Donald J. Trump embarks his new mission, let's say, or position within this administration as President.
We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.
We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
You want me to believe American evidence and don't want me to believe the indications that we have. We live here, this is our reality.
You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.
Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.
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.
They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.
The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.
The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.
I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.
America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.
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.
If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.
On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don't exist all over Syria.
If you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult proposition.
I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.
It's not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it's not the fight of the government ; it's the fight of the country, of the Syrian people.
If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.
António Guterres role as Secretary-General in bringing all powers together is very essential` and we hope he can succeed, it's not easy of course.
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].
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.
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.
"Winning" is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.
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.
Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.
You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.
We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call "free Syrian army." That's what we said.
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.
This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that's good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.
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.
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.
[Chemical weapons] isn't about what the United States believe in, it's about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don't have to discuss it.
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.
Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.
When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army in the world.
When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.
Any cooperation that doesn't go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it's not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don't recognize and we don't accept.
Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.
I don't want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
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.
Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.
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.