President Al-Assad takes the oath of office as President of the Syrian Arab Republic

President Bashar Al-Assad was sworn in as president of the Syrian Arab Republic in the presence of Speaker of the People’s Assembly and MPs and in the presence of political, party, religious, cultural, sport and artistic figures, journalists and families of the martyrs and the inured.

 Following the oath taking ceremony, President Al-Assad delivered a speech in which he stressed that the Syrian people’s awareness and national belongingness have proved that people’s determination to defend their rights is unrelenting despite colonialists’ schemes.

The Syrian people, with their national unity, have fired the bullet of mercy on the schemes that targeted the homeland, he added.

“In the early stage of the war on Syria, enemies’ bet was on our fear of terrorism and on turning the Syrians into mercenaries,” President Al-Assad said, affirming that the Syrians inside the homeland are becoming stronger and more challenging, but those who were planned to be used against their homeland have turned into a card abroad that offer services to the enemies when they need.

“National awareness has been your fortress and our fortress and it is the standard that measures our ability to defy difficulties and distinguish between treason and patriotism and between revolution and terrorism,” the president made it clear.

President Al-Assad asserted that the stability of the society is a top priority and anything hurting the society’s security and safety is absolutely rejected, pointing out that any society that doesn’t respect and enhance values can never be a stable or a prosperous society.

He renewed his call on all those who were misled and who bet on the collapse of the state to return to their normal life under the umbrella of the homeland because “bets have failed and the homeland has stayed”.

to be continued