Addressing his new Cabinet, the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, remained defiant, and instructed the Cabinet to defeat the 16-month-old uprising.
Assad said,
“We live in a real state of war from all angles,”
“When we are in a war, all policies and all sides and all sectors need to be directed at winning this war.”
Criticising the West, Assad said, that the West “takes and never gives and this has been proven at every stage”.
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