Lt. Gen. Bashar attends military training, Party RL meeting
In the first day after announcing the results of the referendum Lt. Gen. Bashar al-Assad attended a tactical project carried out by a Syrian army combat formation.
Lt. Gen. Bashar was accompanied to the site of the exercise by Lt. Gen. Ali Aslan. Lt. Gen. Bashar listened to explanation offered by the director of the exercise about the combat operations of this exercise and types of used weapons.
The exercise was performed in a way which showed a high level of efficiency from the Syrian soldiers in carrying out tasks entrusted to them in a way that it embodies the capabilities of the Syrian soldiers and their skills in having command and absorbing up to date and advanced weapons.
At the end of the exercise Lt. Gen. al-Assad praised the efforts made by the soldiers in carrying out the exercise. He also stressed the importance of training in order to improve the military level of the armed forces. He stressed the importance of hard efforts to promote the level of the armed forces in line with the basics established by the late President Hafez al-Assad.
On Wednesday evening, Lt. Gen. Bashar al-Assad met with the Baath party regional leadership, in the first meeting of its kind after he was declared as President of the Syrian Arab Republic. This weekly meeting for the Baath party Regional Leadership (RL) falls in the efforts exerted to " rehabilitate the role played by the Baath party" and to " revitalize this role" and to work to " continue inspection and audition by the Party on the performance in the country's establishments."
On Tuesday, Lt. Gen. Bashar al-Assad released decisions in which he called for stop printing his pictures and to stop hanging banners in the streets of Damascus praising him within two weeks. He also called for using officially only one agreed picture for him in public establishments.
