UMengameli u-Bashar Assad utshele uhulumeni waseSyria ukuthi udinga isikhathi esengeziwe ukuze unqobe impi yombango emazwini asakazwa ngoLwesithathu afane nokuqaphela ukuthi amasosha akhe alwela ukunqanda inselelo.
Ezinyangeni ezimbalwa ezedlule, amasosha aye anweba kancane kancane ukulwa okuncane ezindaweni eziningi ngokumelene namavukelambuso azama ukuketula umbuso ka-Assad wobushiqela. Amasosha akhe awakwazanga ukududuza ukuvukela umbuso njengoba kubhebhetheka enhlokodolobha iDamaseku ngezingxabano ezibalulekile eziqale ngoJulayi nasedolobheni elikhulu laseSyria, i-Aleppo, emasontweni ambalwa kamuva. Ngasikhathi sinye, amasosha adonsa kanzima ochungechungeni lwamanye amadolobha namadolobhana ezweni lonke.
U-Assad, ekhuluma engxoxweni yethelevishini nesiteshi esizimele esisekela uhulumeni, usole ubunzima bakhe ekunqobeni amavukela-mbuso ngalokho athi kungamasosha angaphandle abhebhethekisa lesi sihlava.
"Sizabalaza nempi yesifunda kanye neyomhlaba wonke, ngakho isikhathi siyadingeka ukuyinqoba," esho umabonakude waseDunya, ophethwe uRami Makhlouf, umzala ka-Assad futhi ongomunye wamadoda acebe kakhulu eSyria. “Ngingafingqa yonke le ncazelo ngomusho owodwa: siya phambili. Isimo sesingcono impela kodwa akukanqunywa. Lokho kuthatha isikhathi.”
Lawa mazwi akhishwe esiqephu esedlule senhlolokhono ezosakazwa nguDunya ngokugcwele ngokuhamba kosuku.
Kuhlanganiswe nokuphawula kwakhe esikhulwini sase-Iran esivakashile ngempelasonto, u-Assad ukhombisa ukuzimisela kwengxabano ethatha isikhathi eside, ngisho nabangaphezu kuka-20,000 okulinganiselwa ukuthi bashonile ezinyangeni ezingaphezu kuka-17 zokulwa. Uthe isikhulu sase-Irani umbuso wakhe uzoqhubeka nokulwa nabavukeli “noma iyiphi intengo.”
Amaqembu amalungelo aqapha udlame manje abika ukufa kwabantu baseSyria abayi-100 kuye kwangama-250 noma ngaphezulu nsuku zonke, nakuba izibalo zingenakwenzeka ukuqinisekiswa. Impi ibishubile ngokwanele ukuba iphoqelele amakhulu ezinkulungwane ukuba ashiye amakhaya awo, ayophephela kwenye indawo ezweni noma emazweni angomakhelwane.
U-Assad uphendule ngohleko olukhulu ngesikhathi etshelwa oxoxile ukuthi amahemuhemu mayelana nokuthi ukuphi avame ukuzungeza abantu baseSyria.
“Ngilapha nawe estudiyo eDamaseku,” kusho yena.
U-Assad akavamile ukuvela emphakathini selokhu kwabulawa izikhulu zakhe ezine eziphezulu zezokuphepha esigamekweni sokuqhuma kwebhomu ngoJulayi 18 eDamascus.
Ebonakala ezethemba futhi ekhululekile, u-Assad uhloniphe abantu baseSyria, ethi bame baqinise ngemuva kwakhe namabutho akhe ahlomile.
Kepha ugxeke abaholi abake babambisene neTurkey, wathi abanye babo "babengazi."
Izikhulu zaseSyria zivame ukucaphuna iTurkey engumakhelwane, kanye neSaudi Arabia kanye neQatar, njengabasekeli abakhulu bamavukela-mbuso, ebanikeza imali nezikhali.
"Isiphetho seSyria, ngitshela abantu baseSyria, sisezandleni zenu," kusho u-Assad. "Lesi sizinda esibanzi sabantu baseSyria sivikela izwe."
Uphinde wahlonipha amasosha kahulumeni.
"Uma sizibuza ukuthi iyiphi ingxenye (yomphakathi waseSyria) eyenze ngaphezu kwazo zonke ezinye ekusizeni leli zwe ukuthi lime liqine, ngokungangabazeki ngamabutho ahlomile."
