We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.

If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.

Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it's difficult to say who is more important than the other.

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.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.