Al-Assad accepts credentials of new ambassadors to Syria, confers with Lebanese official

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday accepted the credentials of seven new ambassadors at al-Shaab palace in Damascus. They are respectively the ambassadors of Romania, Hungary, the people's democratic republic of Korea, Slovakia, Belgium, Austria and Canada.

Following the ceremony held for that purpose the Syrian president met with each ambassador separately and exchanged with him views.

Present at the meetings were the foreign minister Farouk al-Shara, the minister for Presidential affairs and the secretary of the presidency.

Earlier in the day, the President received former Speaker of the Lebanese parliament Hussein al-Huseini.

Talks dealt with conditions in the region and the situation created by the armed Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian people as well as issued of common interests between Lebanon and Syria.