Arab youth delegations visit the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Solidarity Forum begins in Damascus

Damascus (ST): The Arab student delegations participating in the Arab Solidarity Forum this morning visited the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Mount Qasiyoun in Damascus, and laid a wreath on the edifice.

Yesterday, student delegations arrived in Damascus from Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait, Morocco and Bahrain to show solidarity with Syria and demand an immediate end to the siege and unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people.

This was followed by the start of the activities of the Solidarity Arab Youth Forum hosted by the National Union of Syrian Students and the Revolutionary Youth Union Organization under the title (Together to End the Siege and Unjust Sanctions on Syria), with the participation of 92 young people from 10 Arab countries, in the Rida Saeed Conference Hall at the University of Damascus.

The President of the National Union of Syrian Students, Darine Suleiman, said in a speech during the opening of the forum: This event is an opportunity, a platform, and a space to demand the breaking of the siege and an end to the unilateral coercive measures imposed on Syria, which affected the country’s capabilities in dealing with the repercussions of the earthquake disaster.

She added, “The time has come to unify our efforts to break the siege, because what is happening in Syria is a crime against humanity,” indicating that the supplies of Arab countries for relief to those affected by the earthquake in Syria constituted an honorable image of standing by the Syrian people.

The Lebanese Abdullah Abdel Hamid, the general supervisor of the forum, said: “We will remain together in the face of all the conspiracies that are hatched against our nation.

Abdul Hamid stressed that Syria was subjected to a global  war, but it remained steadfast because its people and throughout history did not and will not acquiesce in all external conspiracies, and its valiant army made many sacrifices, and its wise leadership knows the size of conspiracies and how to confront them.

In his turn, the head of the Revolutionary Youth Union Organization, Sumar Daher, explained that the forum is an opportunity to convey the message of the Arab student delegations by demanding the lifting of the siege on Syria and to stand by the Syrian youth in the ordeal of the earthquake that the country was exposed to after 12 years of the terrorist war and coercive economic measures imposed on them.

K.Q.