The West has Brought Terrorists to Syria: President Bashar Al Assad's
Historic Speech. Full Transcript
By Bashar al-Assad
Global Research, January 07, 2013
SANA
President al-Assad : Out of Womb of Pain, Hope Should Be Begotten,
from Suffering Important Solutions Rise
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-west-has-brought-terrorists-to-syria-president-bashar-al-assads-historic-speech-full-transcript/5317977>
Assad 'peace plan' met with scorn by foes
By Reuters
Sunday, 6 January 2013
<http://www.arabianbusiness.com/assad-peace-plan-met-with-scorn-by-foes-484647.html>
US, allies step up military backing for Syria's sectarian insurgency
By Chris Marsden
7 January 2013
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/07/syri-j07.html
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http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=520902&type=World
Defiant Assad outlines peace plans for Syria
Source: Agencies | 2013-1-7
SYRIAN President Bashar Assad yesterday outlined his vision for a
road map to end nearly 22 months of violence in Syria but also struck
a defiant tone, calling on his countrymen to unite against "murderous
criminals" whom he said are carrying out a foreign plot seeking to
tear the nation apart.
In a one-hour speech to the nation in which he appeared confident and
relaxed, Assad ignored international demands for him to step down and
said he was ready to hold a dialogue but only with those "who have
not betrayed Syria."
He offered a national reconciliation conference, elections and a new
constitution but demanded regional and Western countries first stop
funding and arming rebels trying to overthrow him.
The opposition National Coalition said the speech was an attempt to
thwart an international agreement, backed by Western and Arab powers,
that he must stand down.
Speaking at the Opera House in central Damascus, Assad told the hall
packed with his supporters that "we are in a state of war. We are
fighting an external aggression that is more dangerous than any
others, because they use us to kill each other."
He added: "It is a war between the nation and its enemies, between
the people and the murderous criminals."
The audience frequently broke out in cheers and applause.
He seemed equally confident in his troops' ability to crush the
rebels fighting his rule, even as they edge in closer than ever to
his seat of power in Damascus.
The president spoke before a collage of pictures of what appeared to
be Syrians who have been killed since March 2011.
As he was leaving the hall, he was mobbed by a group of loyalists
shouting: "With our blood and souls we redeem you, Bashar!"
In his speech, Assad acknowledged the enormous impact of the nation's
conflict, which the United Nations recently estimated had killed more
than 60,000 people.
"We meet today and suffering is overwhelming Syrian land. There is no
place for joy in any corner of the country in the absence of security
and stability," Assad said. "I look at the eyes of Syria's children
and I don't see any happiness."
Assad said his forces were fighting groups of "murderous criminals"
and jihadi elements and denied there was an uprising against his
family's decades-long rule.
He stressed the presence of religious extremists and jihadi elements
among those fighting in Syria, calling them "terrorists who carry the
ideology of al-Qaida" and "servants who know nothing but the language
of slaughter."
He struck a defiant tone, saying Syria will not take dictates from
anyone and urged his countrymen to unite to save the nation.
Outlining his peace initiative, he said: "The first part of a
political solution would require regional powers to stop funding and
arming (the rebels), an end to terrorism and controlling the borders."
He said this would then be followed by dialogue and a national
reconciliation conference and the formation of a wide representative
government which would then oversee new elections, a new constitution
and general amnesty.
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