The ideas of splitting Syria, Iraq or Lebanon are dangerous and may lead to constant wars between small states in the region. This is what President of Syria Bashar Assad said in an interview with France’s Valeur Actuel magazine, reports RIA Novosti news agency, writes panorama.am.

According to Assad, such development of events may become a source for terrorism that will spread across the globe.

“If the region faces such a situation (split), I must tell you that there will be small states at war with each other endlessly and possibly for centuries. Any similar situation means constant wars. For the rest of the world, this means terrorism and destabilization that can spread around the world,” Bashar Assad mentioned.

According to the leader of Syria, the idea of splitting states with religious and denominational signs in the Near East, which has been spread by some Western mass media outlets, creates the impression that those states want to express the wrong opinion of an interreligious war between representatives of different religions that supposedly don’t want to live together.

“In reality, if you ask any Syrian if he or she would support or go against the government, everyone would tell you that they support the unity in Syria,” Bashar Assad emphasized.

According to Assad, the representatives of all the faiths and minorities in all Syrian cities and residences under the control of the Syrian army live together in peace.