Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem accused the West of wanting to sow chaos that will lead to the break-up of the country

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem accused the West of wanting to sow chaos that will lead to the break-up of the country.

Muallem delivered Syria’s statement at the UN General Assembly on Monday, tackling the current events in Syria and the reforms taken by the Syrian leadership.

Anti-regime protests were also a "pretext for foreign interventions", he said at the UN General Assembly in New York. Foreign governments were trying to undermine co-existence between Syria's different religious groups, he added.
  
"How can we otherwise explain media provocations, financing and arming religious extremism?" he said. "What purpose could this serve other than total chaos that would dismember Syria -- and consequently adversely affect its neighbors?"

China meanwhile expressed its concern at the wider implications of the crisis in Syria, even as the United States pressed Beijing, a veto-wielding member of the Security Council, to back stronger UN action against Damascus.
  
In New York, China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said "we hope that parties in Syria will exercise restraint, avoid any form of violence or more bloodshed and conflict, and act quickly to ease tension."
  
China has joined Russia in leading opposition to UN sanctions against the Assad government in Syria.
  
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China to back strong UN action on Syria when she met Yang just before his speech, a senior US official said.
The state-run SANA news agency reported the seizure of "arms and ammunition" in a house in the Daraa village of Nassib near the Jordanian border, and the discovery of a carload of "Israeli arms and explosives charges in Homs." SANA also reported the funeral of four soldiers and security officers, as well as that of a doctor who had been killed in Homs.