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.

Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

The first question that I ask : do I have public support or not. That is the first question that I asked as President. If I don't have the public support, whether there's the so-called "Arab spring" - it's not spring, anyway - but whether we have this or we don't, if you don't have public support, you have to quit, you have to leave. If you have public support, in any circumstances you have to stay. That's your mission, you have to help the people, you have to serve the people.

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.

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.