President Assad has said that if any Syrian individual has been party to this crime or implicated in the assassination of Hariri, then he has committed a treasonous crime.

No other incident has caused [such] terrible damage to Syria in the past 30 years.

We are willing to re-engage the moment you want but one condition.

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States. This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States.

This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

Syria has the political will and desire to constructively engage with the United States and to improve relations with the United States.

Let me first thank President Bush for his concern about Lebanon and the fair and free elections that will happen in May, ... Now President Bush can focus his attention on the really terrible occupation of the Palestinian territories and the occupation of Syrian territories and Lebanese territories by Israel.

We will leave immediately. We will not blink an eye.