I have declared that Syria is innocent of this crime, and I am ready to follow up action to bring to trial any Syrian who could be proved by concrete evidence to have had connection with this crime,

Bashar Assad

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not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria.

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This (assassination) is against our principles and my principles, and I would never do such a thing in my life, ... What do we achieve? I think what happened targeted Syria.

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We have the urge to reach a state of peace, but we have no urge to compromise an inch of our territory nor do we accept our sovereignty to be impinged on,

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All kinds of cooperation with Israel should be stopped and the boycott should be reactivated,

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