The Prime Ministry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates mourn Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem

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Damascus, (ST) – The Prime Ministry and the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry mourn the death of Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem who passed away on Monday at dawn.

Minister al-Moallem’s cortege will be escorted on Monday afternoon from al-Shami Hospital to his final resting place in al-Mezzeh cemetery.

The Late Minister was a long-standing diplomat known for his honorable and national stances at different political and diplomatic arenas. He was born in Damascus in 1941, and studied at public schools from the year 1948 to 1960. He obtained a secondary school certificate, joined Cairo University, and graduated from it in the year 1963 with a B.A. in Economics.

He was Director of the Private Offices Department from 1984 to 1990.

The Late minister, al-Moallem, was appointed as Syria’s ambassador to the United States from 1990 until 1999. Then he was appointed as Assistant Foreign Minister in the beginning of the year 2000, and he was later appointed as Deputy Foreign Minister, and then as Foreign Minister in the year 2006. In 2012 he was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister.

The Late, Al-Moallem  wrote  four books “Palestine and Armed Peace in 1970”, “Syria in the Mandate Period from 1917 to 1948”, “Syria from Independence to Unity from 1948 to 1958” and “The World and the Middle East from the American Perspective”.

The Late Minister is married and he has three children.

Raghda Sawas 

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