President al-Assad meets members of the Lebanese-Syrian Parliamentary Brotherhood and Friendship Committee

On February 19th, President Bashar al-Assad met with members of the Lebanese-Syrian Parliamentary Brotherhood and Friendship Committee who arrived in Syria on a visit of solidarity with the Syrian people. 

During the meeting, President al-Assad affirmed that Syria appreciates what Lebanon has shown at the official and popular level in terms of humanitarian response and support for the efforts of the Syrian government, in providing relief to those affected by the earthquake. 

President al-Assad considered that the relationship between Lebanon and Syria is primarily a brotherly relationship between the peoples of the two countries, and this is the basis on which official policies are supposed to be based on serving the common interests of the two peoples, and working towards facing the challenges they face. 

For their part, the members of the delegation indicated that they went to Syria to express the depth of the Lebanese people’s solidarity with the Syrian people and their stand by them, and to stress the necessity of activating bilateral relations and upgrading them in all fields to the level that meets the interest of the one people in the two brotherly countries.

O. al-Mohammad