叙利亚总统阿萨德说，叙利亚政府将遵守放弃化学武器的协议，但他否认叙利亚政府军上月发动毒气攻击。据称发生在大马士革附近的那次攻击导致一千多人死亡。
 
在接受美国福克斯新闻网采访时，阿萨德保证遵守美国和俄罗斯达成的有关清除叙利亚化武库存的协议。他表示，销毁化武将耗资10亿美元，需要大约一年时间。
 
对阿萨德的采访报道于星期三播出。福克斯新闻网一名记者和前美国国会议员库齐尼奇与阿萨德进行了交谈。库齐尼奇目前是福克斯新闻网的分析员。
 
阿萨德还坚持说，叙利亚政府并不是在打内战。他表示，这场已经持续两年多的冲突是“一种新型战争”，政府军在对抗来自80多个国家的伊斯兰主义战斗人员。阿萨德说，“80%到90%的地下恐怖分子属于基地组织及其分支”。
 
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his government will honor an agreement to dispose of its chemical arsenal, but denies his forces launched a gas attack last month said to have killed more than one thousand people near Damascus.

In an interview with ((the U.S. network)) Fox News, Mr. Assad promised to abide by a deal reached by U.S. and Russian envoys aimed at liquidating the chemical stockpiles. He said destruction of the weapons would cost $1 billion and would take about a year.

The interview, aired Wednesday, was conducted in Damascus by a Fox correspondent and former U.S. lawmaker Dennis Kucinich, who is now an analyst for the network.

Mr. Assad also insisted his government is not fighting a civil war.  He described the two-year conflict as "a new kind of war" pitting government forces against Islamist fighters from more than 80 countries.  He also said "80 to 90 percent of the underground terrorists are al-Qaida and their offshoots."