Assad says Syria 'victim of foreign conspiracy'

2011-03-30 30

Syria's president has defied wide expectations by maintaining the country's five-decade-old emergency law despite weeks of unrest. In his first public comments since the start of the protests, Bashar al-Assad told parliament that he supported reform but offered no alternative to change Syria's rigid political system. He also accused external forces of fomenting sectarian strife. ... http://www.euronews.net/