Syrian- Russian party relations reviewed

Syria's Vice President and Vice Chairman of the National Progressive Front (NPF), Mohammed Zouhair Mashareqa, yesterday in Damascus received the visiting Russian Communist Party delegation headed by Party's 1st Deputy Chairman, Valentine Koptsov in the presence of the Secretary Generals of the Syrian NPF Parties.

SANA said that "Masharqa briefed the visiting delegation on the NPF' s experience in the field of political and party plurality as well as in the national unity enhancement and the real democracy performance which was founded by the late President Hafez Al-Assad and pursued by President Bashar Al-Assad the leader of development and modernization process in Syria."

The vice president also talked about the situation in the Arab region and the sufferings of the Palestinian people under "the Israeli brutal massacres as well as the war plans being prepared for Iraq."

Mashareqa indicated that Syria is doing her utmost to create appropriate environments to avoid a war that would lead the region and the entire world to the unknown.

The Russian delegation head, Koptsov mentioned the strong relations and joint interests between Syrian and the Russian peoples expressing praise over Syria's political course of action under the leadership of President Bashar Al-Assad as well as her exerted efforts to avoid a war in the region.

Koptsov expressed his party's stand with the Syrian people in defending national causes.