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November 16th, 2016 
Awake Goy Assad told Portuguese RTP TV channel in an interview to on Tuesday that he did not harbor high expectations on a U-turn in American approach to Syria after change of American administration in January. The Syrian leader believes Trump will find it hard to implement the idea of closer cooperation with Syria on fighting terrorism, saying that the future president, as any other American leader, will have little room for decision-making being under pressure of different lobby groups.
“That’s why for us it’s still dubious whether he can do or live up to his promises or not. That’s why we are very cautious in judging him,” Assad said, reminding that it is especially hard to anticipate Trump’s policies as he had not been a politician.
At the same time, in case the new American government is “genuine” about tackling the common threat of terrorism and would “have the ability” to do that, Syria will be among “the first ones” to consider joining forces with Washington, Assad said, adding that if “he [Trump] is going to fight the terrorists, of course we are going to be ally, natural ally in that regard with the Russian, with the Iranian, with many other countries who wanted to defeat the terrorists.”
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Commenting on the US Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s words, who seemingly took a harsher stance on Syria by saying back in October, that US “should be prepared to use military force” against Syrian army to prevent humanitarian catastrophe in Aleppo, Assad criticized the Washington’s self-assumed role of “police of the world” and “judge of the world.”
“They are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country,” Assad noted, arguing that freedom and democracy cannot be imposed from abroad as a prerogative of the Syrian people to shape their democracy.
“You cannot bring it, you cannot import it. You cannot import anything from outside your country regarding the future of your country,” Assad stressed.
Speaking of Syria’s road to democracy, Assad said, that while he could not call Syria a democracy right now the country was “moving forward in that regard,” adding that it should not be measured by Western criteria.
“West has its own culture, we have our own culture, they have their own reality, we have our own reality. So, our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.”
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