Under President Al-Assad’s Patronage, International Trade Unions Forum for Solidarity with Syria in Confrontation of Terrorism, Sanctions Kicks off

DAMASCUS, (ST)-Under the patronage of President Bashar Al-Assad, the International Trade Unions Forum for Solidarity with the workers and the people of Syria in the confrontation of terrorism, foreign interference and unjust sanctions started its activities today in Damascus.

 The forum’s sessions will focus on topics relating to terrorism and its roots, the danger of terrorism on the working force and people in general, in addition to ways of confronting extremism and terrorism. Besides, the policy of siege and economic sanctions, which are considered as an illegitimate terrorist tool used against peoples to perpetuate imperialist hegemony, are also among the topics to be focused on.

Chairman of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) Jamal al-Qaderi said the forum provides an opportunity to all participants from different countries to know what is really going on in Syria away from any fabrications or disinformation by western and some regional mass media which has participated in shedding the Syrian blood and played an inciting role against the Syrian state in the service of the terrorist takfiri organizations and their masters.

Al-Qaderi pointed out that the participants will discuss the humanitarian suffering caused to the Syrian people and the destruction caused to the Syrian cultural heritage by the foreign-backed terrorists.

He stressed that Syria’s workers and people are steadfast and their sacrifices will lead to an-all out victory to all peoples of the region and the world.

“Syria’s adherence to independence and sovereignty has unveiled the backwardness of some Arab governments,” al-Qaderi said.

He stressed that Syria’s workers will keep loyal to their homeland’s sovereignty and independence and adherent to their army.

On his part, Secretary General of the World Federation of Trade Unions George Mavrikos called for halting foreign interference in Syria and lifting the unjust siege and sanctions imposed on the Syrian people.

Taking part in the 2-day forum are more than 250 participants from 29 foreign and Arab countries and representing 100 Arab and international unionist organizations that comprise 300 million workers from different parts of the world.

Members of the guest delegations, who arrived in Damascus yesterday evening, made statements to SANA in which they voiced their solidarity with Syria in the confrontation of terrorism and the policy of siege and sanctions imposed on the country.

Hamda Mustafa