12 Sep 2013 20:35

No country in Middle East should have weapons of mass destruction - Assad

MOSCOW. Sept 12 (Interfax) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the Middle East, primarily Israel, should be free from weapons of mass destruction.

"When we proposed a project to liquidate stores of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, the United States impeded the project. One of the reasons was to allow Israel to have such weapons," Assad said in an interview with Rossiya 24 television.

"If we want stability in the Middle East, all countries should adhere to agreements and the first country to adhere to the agreements should be Israel because Israel has nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and all types of weapons of mass destruction," he said.