Syrian president said National dialogue to be commenced soon….

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said national dialogue would commence soon to resolve the issues.

He said that national dialogue was not restricted to certain sectors, nor did it mean dialogue between the government and the opposition, and it need not be restricted to political matters.

It is dialogue by all the people on all national matters," he said.

 A committee on national dialogue will meet in the next few days and invite more than 100 personalities to discuss the criteria and mechanism for constitutional reform, he said. He set a one-month target date for presenting recommendations. Assad warned of a new trend of killing started in Jisr al-Shughour.

 At the beginning of the protests 64,400 people were wanted by the Syrian authorities, says Assad, though many have turned themselves in.