AFP - Syria, which considers the demands of his people "legitimate", plans to cancel the law on state of emergency and will establish mechanisms "effective" to fight against corruption, said Thursday Boussaïna Shaaban Councillor of President Bashar al-Assad.
This statement came as Syria was the scene since March 15 of a protest movement against the regime, especially in the south, which killed more than a hundred dead by militants of Human Rights .
The official news agency announced at the same time an immediate increase in salaries of 30%.
"Syria will consider revocation of the law on the state of emergency" declared in the country coming to power of the Baath party in 1963, said Ms. Boussaïna at a press conference in Damascus.
She added that "new mechanisms to fight against corruption will be established."
The claims of the inhabitants of Dera southern city where demonstrations against the regime are the most important are "legitimate," she said otherwise.
"The claims are important and legitimate.They are on the desk of President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian leaders, "she said.
However, she wanted to make the distinction between the inhabitants of Deraa and "people who have guns (and) have no claim (who) are just trying to cause violence."
"I can say with certainty that those affected are not the people of Deraa but those who want to destabilize the security Deraa prior to destabilize security in the entire country," she said.
"If there are legitimate demands of the people, then the authorities will consider seriously but if someone just wants to cause trouble, then that's another story."
She reported an "ongoing investigation" to determine who were responsible for these events, however, speaking of "financing" foreign ".
"There are indications that there are foreign funding and arms trafficking (...) But we can say that finance or planning it," she said.
Regarding the number of deaths since March 15, she has previously indicated that there had been "10 deaths".
Activists defending human rights talk to them more than 100 deaths in the repression of demonstrations for one day Wednesday Deraa (100 km south of Damascus).
Ms. Boussaïna criticized the foreign media of exaggerating the death toll in the demonstrations.
"The problem is that some media outlets want to exaggerate the number of dead," she said at the press conference.
The authorities charged Wednesday in clashes Wednesday in Deraa an "armed gang", accusing him of killing four people and "to store weapons in the mosque," al-Omari, a rallying point for protesters.
The protest movement began on March 15 in Syria following a call via a Facebook page titled "Revolution against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2011.
This page has called for new protests Friday in the country.
