President Al-Assad chairs cabinet meeting

DAMASUS,(ST)_President Bashar Al-Assad has said the ministries have a lot of extra work that must achieve citizens’ hopes.

The remark was made during the Tuesday’s cabinet meeting chaired by the President after the new ministers sworn in.

President Al-Assad also stressed that citizen shoulders responsibility to contribute from his/her position to work together, whether inside a establishment or between the state and the citizen, to alleviate the crisis’s impact.

He added that the sides, which are targeting Syria, have systematically worked to destroy its infrastructure; thereby they are targeting the Syrian people first and foremost plus the citizen’s mentality.

“This requires exerting great efforts by everyone to confront,” the President said.

Prime Minister, Dr.Wael al-Halqi, thanked President Al-Assad for his trust, asserting the government’s determination to do its utmost to ensure citizen’s basic needs and back the armed forces to eliminate terrorist groups.

On Sunday, the president reshuffled the cabinet appointing new seven ministers for Public Works, Labor, Agriculture, Oil, Finance, Housing, and Social Affairs.

BasmaQaddour