President Bashar al-Assad affirmed that a large part of the Syrian people have a spirit of challenge and a belief in the correctness of their positions, and this is the most important factor for our steadfastness, and without this spirit no country can stand firm no matter what support is provided to it.
Yesterday, during his meeting with members of the General Secretariat of the Conference of Arab Parties, which is holding its emergency meeting in Damascus, a number of issues with an Arab and national dimension were discussed, as President Al-Assad considered that today is a favorable opportunity for parties and political forces to move because there are real and practical models on the ground that have proven the success of the besieged peoples. In resisting its siege, in contrast to the idea of defeat and concession that the hostile media worked hard to instill and plant in the hearts of the people of our Arab society years ago, stressing that it is not required that we have one thought or one orientation, but the important thing is that we meet the ultimate goal.
President al-Assad affirmed that a large part of the Syrian people has a spirit of challenge, and a belief in the correctness of their positions, and this is the most important factor for our steadfastness, and without this spirit no country can stand steadfast no matter what support is provided to it, and that the parties express the image of society with its intellectual and political currents, and the Arab society is distinguished With great diversity, so the more the conference circle expands, the better it will be able to express societies, and this requires work to expand the circle towards different currents and affiliations, and perhaps dialogue is the most important factor to achieve this.
President al-Assad stressed the importance of working on a common identity for the Arabs, without which progress will not be achieved on any cultural, economic or other level.
For his part, the Secretary-General of the General Secretariat of the Arab Parties, Qassem Salih, thanked Syria for hosting the meeting of the secretariat at this sensitive stage, and offered condolences on behalf of the members of the delegation to President al-Assad and the Syrian people for the victims of the earthquake, stressing the solidarity of all the conference parties with Syria in facing the repercussions of this disaster.
In turn, the members of the secretariat stressed the need to end the occupation of all Syrian lands, and to lift the unjust siege and unilateral coercive sanctions imposed on the Syrian people, stressing that they represent illegal measures that are inconsistent with international law and clear evidence of the arrogance and arrogance of American policy, considering that lifting the siege is a national mission and a humanitarian need. It is urgent, especially following the catastrophe of the earthquake that the Syrian people are facing today.
The members also stressed that Syria, with its steadfastness and victory, despite all that was planned for it in terms of terrorism and destruction, made it a compass for the Arabs, and that its adherence to Arabism established it as a method for the Arab peoples and parties.
The First Deputy Secretary of the Jordanian People’s Democratic Party, Adnan Khalifa, described in a statement to SANA that the meeting with President al-Assad was transparent, indicating that President al-Assad had listened to many points of view and opinions that would have consequences for work in the next stage.
In his turn, the Secretary-General of the Socialist Democratic Unionist Party in Mauritania, Mahfouz Ould Aziz, stated that the members of the General Secretariat of the Conference left the meeting with President al-Assad optimistic regarding the upcoming future, and said: “Whoever wants to return to his Arabism must return to Syria, as Syria has not left its Arabism, Rather, it was a victim of defending Arabism.”
The leader of the Bahraini Al-Wefaq Society, Youssef Rabie, said: “The meeting with President al-Assad was frank and clear, and many issues were presented in it,” indicating that the Arab parties in the next stage have a great responsibility, because Syria has provided a lot for Arab issues, and it has an important role in addressing For any American and Zionist project in the region.
In turn, Hamid Rizk of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement pointed out that “the meeting with President Al-Assad was important, during which the reality of the Syrian position, which continues solidly in siding with the Arab peoples and their important issues, was closely examined.”
Yesterday, the work of the sixty-third emergency session of the meeting of the General Secretariat of the Conference of Arab Parties kicked off in Damascus, under the title: “Yes to the unity, sovereignty and national project of Syria. The duty of the parties is to come to Syria, declare their solidarity with it, and raise their voices to break the siege on it, which increases the suffering of the Syrian people and the inability of the state to fulfill what is necessary to rescue and rescue the Syrians from the crisis they are suffering from.
In his turn, a member of the central leadership of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, Mahdi Dakhlallah, explained in a statement that the Syrians are facing terrorism in the name of all Arabs, and if Syria fell, all Arab countries would fall, so it is necessary to try to raise the level of performance of the Arab parties.
The work of the sixty-third emergency session of the meeting of the General Secretariat of the Conference of Arab Parties will continue for two days.
Important party and political Arab figures from Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Jordan, Sudan, Egypt, Palestine, Yemen, Bahrain, Algeria and Mauritania are participating in the meeting.