Alwaght-The President of the Syrian Republic, Bashar Al-Assad, was interviewed by the Portuguese State Television (RTP) and has given his opinion and many facts regarding the four-year terrorist war against Syria. He regarded the present "revolution" – as the West describes the Syrian situation – is very much supported by the West and regional countries financially, armory, etc. The West and its media are producing an image of Al-Assad as a "dictator who is killing his good people, so the people are against him, regional countries are against him, and the West is against him, and he succeeded ."
He asked the Western community to speculate the reason for his impedance after four years of the global war against Syria. He answered that the reason lies with the public support, "It doesn’t mean full public support, one hundred percent, or absolute public support, but definitely have support from a part, a large amount of the Syrian people .”
The West has given the international community the idea that Syria is a finished state. However, Al-Assad refuted this idea because "the people are unified behind the government and their army, fighting terrorism, and still have institutions working." He added that there are still subsidies and salaries are still being paid, even in some areas that are under the control of the terrorists, as well as vaccines for the children of those areas. Thus, the basic requirements are reaching those areas .
The Syrian President also mentioned that the Western media (220,000) exaggerate the number of Syrian victims. He said that the issue does not evolve around numbers – hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands. "Victims are victims, killing is killing, and terrorism is terrorism. Actually, it is not about being a mere number represented on a graph, on a chart, like a spreadsheet. It is about families that lost members lost dear ones, lost relatives. It’s a human disaster, we have in Syria ."
The Syrian president further added, “They said it’s peaceful, we said it’s not peaceful, they’ve killing – these demonstrators, that they called them peaceful demonstrators – have killed policemen.” In his opinion, Western officials and media did not reflect the correct picture to their communities; from the beginning of the crisis, the Syrian government and nation were the targets from the beginning .
Assad clarified the reason why Geneva was not the road map that should be followed to solve the conflict and said, “We didn’t choose the other party in Geneva. It was chosen by the West, by Turkey, by Saudi, by Qatar. It was not a Syrian opposition that we made dialogue with. You are right; if you want to make dialogue, you have to make it with Syrian opposition, Syrian collaborates, Syrian people who represents Syrians in Syria, not who represent other countries. So, what happened in Geneva wasn’t the model that we have to follow .”
He continued saying “any opposition that works for the Syrian, to defend its country, represents Syrians or part of the Syrian population .”
On the French attitude, he commented “financial interests push those officials in France to exchange their values of liberty and fraternity and democracy, all the things that they used to preach, the exchange those values for petrodollars. So, now those French officials and some others in the West, they don’t practice what they preach anymore .”
Replying on the question is whether the recent French MPs to Syria was an organized visit, or it came as a surprise to the Syrian government, he answered “No. It was not a surprise, because it was not the first delegation to come to Syria .
Assad further announced, “French and from other countries. Different kinds of delegations, activists, mediators, some officials came to deal with us under the table .
It was officially organized, and they had a schedule when they came. It was weeks before, it was not a surprise .
The Syrian president exhibited his regret from the international community in resolving conflicts and said, “This is a failure of the international system, this international system that’s been represented by the United Nations and the Security Council, and that is supposed to solve the problems and protect the sovereignty of different countries and prevent war. Actually, it has failed in doing so. So, what we have now is a failed United Nations; failed to protect international citizens including in Syria, Libya, Yemen, and in other countries .”
Assad believes that there is nothing so called “moderate opposition,” he said, “they called it “Free Syrian Army,” they have so many other names, and all of them are fantasy. Actually, who is controlling the terrorism arena in Syria are either ISIS or al-Nusra, mainly, and some other smaller factions .”
In the end, he commented on the European efforts paid to demolish terrorist threat “you need officials in Europe to have the will to fight terrorism. This is something that we don’t have to this moment .”
