Zoubi: President Assad’s speech represents a political realism towards challenges facing Syria

DAMASCUS,(ST)_Information Minister Omran Zoubi stressed the importance of the speech delivered by President Bashar al-Assad after the constitutional oath for a new presidential term, describing it as a national conscience speech of mystical devotion to the country and people.

The minister described the president’s speech as reflecting political realism and the state of the logical sense of national responsibility towards challenges facing Syria.

In an interview with the Syrian TV last night Zoubi said that President Assad’s speech reflects the great political ability of the President,the Syrian state and people, in addition to the analytical capacity and the ability of confrontation and extraordinary patience enjoyed by the Syrian people in the face of challenges.

The minister indicated that the living,economic and humanitarian conditions of the Syrian citizen are at the heart of concerns of President Assad ‘s priorities, who follows up with the government details of each of these matters on a daily basis, pointing out the president’s emphasis in his speech on that terrorism intruder on Syria and its practices which are based on killing, eating the hearts and livers,beheadings, displacement, striking the infrastructure, burning and stealing economic establishments, extortion and kidnapping are all the reason that led to the suffering of the Syrians.

He considered that the danger implied by opportunists, namely the beneficiaries of the complex conditions experienced by Syria, who take advantage of the needs of the people to reap the riches, are no less dangerous than those who carried arms against the state and the people, because they traffic citizen food and the country ‘s resources, stressing the need to hold those opportunists accountable.

Regarding the Palestinian cause, Zoubi said that Syria’s relationship with this matter originated from the first moment of the beginning of the Arab-Israeli conflict, a relationship of destiny, to that “ Palestine is our home,and our position concerning the Palestinian people, has not been changed,” adding that Syria’s position on the Israeli aggression on Gaza, stems from our convictions and is not based on the positions of certain Palestinian factions that were not already existed when Syria took its position concerning the Palestinian issue.

On the expiry of the mandate of the current government, the minister explained that according to the constitution, the mandate of this government expires with the end of the mandate of the President of the Republic, and as from today (Thursday) morning, it becomes a caretaker government until a new prime minister is commissioned to form a new government, adding that these issues are being debated throughout the institutions concerned in Syria governed by constitutional rules, in a great respect for the law, the Constitution and the citizen.

T. Fateh