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NICOSIA — Syria has reported renewed links with Western intelligence agencies.

Officials said NATO and other Western intelligence agencies have resumed contact with the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. They said the links were renewed over the last six months amid a Western assessment that Assad would survive the Sunni revolt.

“I am saying that many of these countries have contacted us to coordinate security measures,” Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said.

In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. on Jan. 15, Mekdad refused to specify which Western intelligence agencies have been working with the regime.

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  Bashar Assad, Faisal Mekdad, NATO, re-establish contact, Western intel agencies project Assad’s survival