Al-Mikdad offers condolences to Palestinian Ambassador on the passing away of senior PLO official Farouk Al-Qaddoumi

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates in the caretaker government Faisal Al-Mikdad, made a phone call to Samir Al-Rifai, the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the Syrian Arab Republic, offering his condolences on behalf of Syria on the passing away of the prominent Palestinian freedom fighter Farouk Al-Qaddoumi.

Al-Qaddoumi died Thursday afternoon in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

Al-Mikdad praised the late’s legacy that represented the aspirations of the Palestinian people for liberation from the yoke of the Zionist occupation, and his direct mobilization of all Palestinian forces and Arab and international forces through his position in the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization with the aim of achieving the aspirations of the Palestinian people.
Al-Mikdad stressed that the late freedom fighter believed in the strategic Palestinian-Syrian relations as to continue the struggle against the Zionist occupation of Arab lands.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates asked Ambassador Al-Rifai to convey his condolences to the family of the deceased, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and the Palestinian leadership, stressing that the loss of Al-Qaddoumi is a loss for everyone who stood by the just Palestinian cause in the Arab nation, and that history will not forget the name of Farouk Al-Qaddoumi, and will praise his life that he devoted to serving the goals of the Palestinian people and nation, especially within the current circumstances in which the Palestinian people are offering convoys of martyrs and wounded who confronted the Zionist genocidal war against the Palestinian people.

Al-Qaddoumi was born in a village in Qalqilya governorate in 1931. He became involved in political work at an early stage in his life and participated in the founding of the Fatah movement alongside the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and other leaders.

Al-Qaddoumi became a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1969, a member of the National Council, and head of the Political Department of the PLO in 1973, and head of the Foreign Affairs Department of the PLO in 1989.

 

Hamda Mustafa

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