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AMMAN | Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:29am EDT

(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Saturday legislation to lift 48 years of emergency law would be enacted by next week but warned that new laws in the works would not be lenient toward what he called sabotage.

In a speech to a new cabinet he named last week, Assad said stability remained his priority but said that reform was needed to "strengthen the internal front," following unprecedented protests against his authoritarian rule.

(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis)