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 President Bashar al-Assad of Syria , who has repeatedly denied any involvement in Mr. Hariri 's death , said in an interview on CNN taped Wednesday morning before Mr. Kanaan 's death was announced that if any members of his government were implicated in the Hariri killing , '' they should be punished . '' '' 
 nationality: Bashar al-Assad, Syria
Given a phrase that describes the relationship between two words, extract the words and the lexical relationship between them. The output format should be "relation1: word1, word2; relation2: word3, word4". 
Option: nationality, country capital, place of death, children, location contains, place of birth, place lived, administrative division of country, country of administrative divisions, company, neighborhood of, company founders 
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Answer:
 nationality: Bashar al-Assad, Syria