Information minister: Syria clings to national principles
Syria, Politics, 6/22/2000

Syria's Information Minister Adnan Omran made a speech at the council of the Arab information ministers which on Wednesday started its 33 rd session in Cairo with the participation of 14 Arab ministers of information.

Omran said that among other things: "Our great leader (the late President al-Assad) was of a strong opinion that Syria's security and progress are an integral part of those of the Arab nation." He added that according to the late president who devoted his life working in defense of firm national principles, the dignity of Syria is part of the dignity of the Arabs.

He added as saying: " It is my duty to appease brothers ( Arab brothers) that the Syrians will to defend rights and lands is firm and unshakable, and their will to continue protecting the nation's security and to confronting challenges will remain unwavering thanks to recent decisions made by the country's different constitutional establishments to elect Lt. Gen. Bashar al-Assad a new leader of the party and the State,.

Minister Omran said describing the traits of Bashar al-Assad: " Since the very beginning, the new leader has reiterated full abidance by firm national principles, by the nation's values, by maintaining fraternal ties among the Arabs and by reactivating unceasing efforts to sustain a joint Arab action."

He added that "the feelings of sympathy and condolences offered by leaders of Arab countries over the loss of our President as well as your sympathetic expression with us will enhance our will to go on following the right and firm drive run by our late great leader."

He said: " we are meeting today amidst critical and very grave regional and international changes that may have impact on the future of our homeland and nation. All-out and collective efforts must unceasingly be exerted by all of us to revive the national feelings, to strengthen the position and the role of the Arab nation, to ensure successes in the battles of the comprehensive socio- economic development and to confront all forms of challenges manifested through the perpetuation of Israel's occupation of Palestine, the Golan and parts of Lebanon and the embargo imposed on some Arab states."

He added " During the meeting of the Arab leaders recently held in Cairo, the Arab nation has reiterated its strategic option to achieve a just and comprehensive ME peace based on the implementation of UN international legitimacy resolutions, on Israel's pullout from all occupied Arab territories and the recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people to self determination, to an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and to the return back of the Palestinian refugees to their native homeland of Palestine.

Omran continued:" There is no doubt that clinging fast to this unified stand and supporting the national resistance, which had attained historic victory in Lebanon, are the bases of confronting successive Israeli governments policy of maneuvering, intransigence and suppression against our people in Palestine and the Golan."

He stressed that "the great and accelerating developments in the fields of information and telecommunications which we witness at the beginning of the new century and the spread of globalization phenomenon in its cultural and information dimensions, will leave deep and big reflects on all societies and states. This requires that we have to adopt unified and coordinated strategies and the blueprints to face these development. And despite that we have taken positive steps at the regional and pan- Arab levels in consolidating our national information structures, we still much work to do at all levels in order to convey our information and cultural message," the minister said.

Later in the day, the council of the Arab information ministers started its 33rd session.

The participants in the meeting observed a one- minute silence in memory of the late President Hafez al-Assad. At the opening session the Arab ministers stressed in their speeches that the late President al-Assad is a great loss for Syria and the entire region, due to the late President's brave and wise stances in defending the Arab nation's dignity and rights."

The speakers expressed their total confidence in the continuity of Syria's main role under the leadership of Lt. Gen. Dr. Bashar al-Assad.

In their speeches the Arab information ministers called for backing Syria, wishing all success to Bashar al-Assad in his national responsibility.

Representing the Arab league secretary general, ambassador Muhab Mukbel made in a speech in which he called for drafting an Arab document defining Arab information work bases in the future. He also called for holding a general conference in which all information bodies participate.

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