Individuals' defections from the government will not affect the Syrian state, the country's Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said Aug. 6, AFP and Now Lebanon reported. Al-Zohbi called Syria "a state of institutions," Syrian official news agency SANA reported, and said that the defection of individuals, regardless of rank, would not change the state's policy. He did not name Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab in his statement.
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