WORLD_ William Hague dismisses Bashar al-Assad as 'delusional'

William Hague dismisses Bashar al-Assad as 'delusional'

William Hague described Bashar al-Assad as “delusional”, after the Syrian President accused Britain of funding terrorism inside the country.


By Ruth Sherlock, Beirut
5:41PM GMT 03 Mar 2013


The Foreign Secretary said the embattled dictator was “presiding over this slaughter” in Syria whilst Britain is “sending food and shelter and blankets to help people driven from their homes and families in his name.”

“This will go down as one of the most delusional interviews that any national leader has given in modern times,” he told the BBC.

Mr Assad, in an interview with The Sunday Times, said David Cameron’s “naïve, confused, unrealistic” government was helping “terrorists” like the extremist jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra in its “killing, beheading, torturing and preventing children from going to school”.

“We do not expect an arsonist to be a firefighter,” he said, dismissing any suggestion that Britain could help to resolve the conflict.

Britain has said that it will this week announce more assistance to the Syrian opposition in the form of non-lethal equipment and has refused to rule out the possibility of arming them in the future.


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Mr Hague said that the almost two-year old conflict had become so inflammatory for the entire region that Britain can no longer “sit it out”.

President Assad said that Britain’s involvement was only another show of the country’s tradition of “bullying and hegemony” and of playing “a famously unconstructive role in our region on different issues for decades, some say for centuries”.

“How can we ask Britain to play a role while it is determined to militarise the problem? How can we expect them to make the violence less while they want to send military supplies to the terrorists?” he added.

President Assad also said he would be disposed to “dialogue” with anyone who laid down their weapons, and dealt with the government according to “our plan”; believed to mean that Mr Assad be allowed to stand for elections in 2014 and “let the Syrian people decide”.

Moaz al-Khatib, the Syrian opposition leader, made his first visit inside rebel held parts of Aleppo on Sunday. Earlier he attended a meeting of 220 rebel commanders and opposition campaigners in the Turkish city of Gaziantep to elect an administration for Aleppo province, home to six million people.

Last month Mr al-Khatib broke with the Syrian opposition’s tradition of refusing talks before Mr Assad’s departure and agreed to engage in dialogue. This was on the condition of negotiating an end to Mr Assad’s rule; something which the President still finds unacceptable.

Whilst diplomacy stalls, rebels have continued to make military gains, inching forwards in the civil war that is slowly destroying Syria. On Sunday rebels claimed control of a police academy in Aleppo province, after a weeklong battle that reportedly took more than 200 lives.




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