President Assad to make speech Monday

DAMASCUS : Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is due to make a speech on Monday on developments in his country which has

Published June 19, 2011 Updated June 19, 2011 07:15pm

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By Imad Uddin

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"President Bashar al-Assad will deliver a speech at noon tomorrow concerning developments in Syria," SANA said in a terse dispatch late on Sunday. It gave no further details.

Monday's address will be the third time Assad has made a major speech since protests demanding greater freedoms and democracy erupted in mid-March.

On March 30 -- two weeks after the start of the demonstrations -- he addressed parliament and described the deadly unrest as a "conspiracy" against Syria fomented by its enemies.

And in a televised address on April 16, Assad announced that the emergency law in force in Syria for nearly 50 years would be abolished, expressed his sadness at the deaths of protesters and called for a national dialogue.

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