You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

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.

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

Many Syrians understand that the only way to protect your country is to live with each other with integration, not only in coexistence, which is actually more precise to call cohabitation, when people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.

Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don't accept.