Damascus: Syrian President Al Assad will make a speech on Wednesday about "the internal issues and the latest occurrences", the official state news agency said.
Syria's cabinet was fired on Tuesday in an attempt to quell a wave of popular fury that erupted more than a week ago.
Facing an extraordinary wave of popular dissent, the Syrian President fired his Cabinet and promised to end widely despised emergency laws - concessions unlikely to appease protesters demanding sweeping reforms in one of the most hard-line nations in the Middle East.
The Tuesday overtures, while largely symbolic, were a moment of rare compromise in the Assad family's 40 years of iron-fisted rule.
They came as the government mobilised hundreds of thousands of supporters in rallies in the capital and elsewhere, in an effort to show it has wide popular backing.
President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Tuesday made a telephone call to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad to inquire about the situation in Syria in the light of the latest developments.
Shaikh Khalifa wished Syria more progress and stability.
In a mass show of support for Al Assad, thousands of Syrians took to the streets vowing to shed their blood for their leader. The demonstrators were mobilised to convey a message that the president would not bow to pressure from the opposition, but would rather initiate reforms, according to Dubai-based political analyst Ayman Abdul Nour.
Al Assad could even go further than the 11-point plan to introduce reforms, Abdul Nour speculated.
Al Assad, who was slated to address the nation Tuesday "delayed his speech in order to gather forces and show the opposition that he was not giving in to pressure".
However, Paris-based Syrian analyst Dr Burhan Ghalioun said: "Regardless of what the president will announce in his speech, nothing he has done so far is encouraging me to believe that it will effectively quell protests against the regime."
