A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on September 25, 2013 shows President Bashar al-Assad giving an interview with Venezuelan television station TeleSUR in Damascus. Assad told Telesur that his government was committed to the Chemical Weapons Convention, which it signed as part of the US-Russian agreement on the destruction of its chemical arsenal. AFP PHOTO/HO/SANA --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / SANA" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ---