阿薩德否認使用化武並保證放棄化武

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."敘利亞總統阿薩德說，敘利亞政府將遵守放棄化學武器的協議，但他否認敘利亞政府軍上月發動毒氣攻擊。據稱發生在大馬士革附近的那次攻擊導致一千多人死亡。

在接受美國福克斯新聞網採訪時，阿薩德保證遵守美國和俄羅斯達成的有關清除敘利亞化武庫存的協議。他表示，銷燬化武將耗資10億美元，需要大約一年時間。

對阿薩德的採訪報道於星期三播出。福克斯新聞網一名記者和前美國國會議員庫齊尼奇與阿薩德進行了交談。庫齊尼奇目前是福克斯新聞網的分析員。

阿薩德還堅持說，敘利亞政府並不是在打內戰。他表示，這場已經持續兩年多的衝突是“一種新型戰爭”，政府軍在對抗來自80多個國家的伊斯蘭主義戰鬥人員。阿薩德說，“80%到90%的地下恐怖分子屬於基地組織及其分支”。