Shafaq news/ Syrian President Bashar al Assad suffered low blood pressure for a few minutes while delivering a speech to parliament before resuming normally, state television said on Wednesday.

It said the speech which was supposed to be delivered at around noon would now be broadcast in full at 6:30 p.m.

The channel gave no further details.

“This was a result of a small drop in blood pressure that Mr. President suffered before he resumed his speech normally,” state televisions said.

The last appearance of Assad was during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy to Syria, at the end of last month.