Hilal: Workers Real Guarantee for the Survival of Syria as State Institutions

DAMASCUS, (ST) _ Participants in the work of the second session of the General Council of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) stressed the need to establish a new participatory approach, based on respect for laws and regulations.

The participants called for strengthening national reconciliation that lead to a comprehensive inter- national dialogue on the Syrian territory, as the only way for the salvation of the country and bring stability and national sovereignty and the need for laws provided for reforming the public sector, especially the industrial sector as a guarantor for Syria’s stability and steadfastness, after it was subjected to vandalism and theft by armed terrorist organizations.

The participants called for creating agricultural and industrial investments and expansion of production in Tartous province, building a yeast plant in in Tel Salhab sugar company and secure the arrival of fuel and gas to power plants, ensuring the development of plant and animal production requirements, especially wheat, fertilizer, feed, vaccines and medicines, pesticides and the establishment of agricultural and small and medium craft projects in the rural areas in order to increase and diversify the rural household income.

Moreover, GFTU branches in the provinces of Homs, Sweida, Quneitra, Aleppo and Deirez-Zour, Dara, and Latakia stressed the need to protect the economic resources, fight against corruption and reconsider social assistance funds, enhance national unity and genuine national reconciliation, promote the capabilities of the Syrian people, restructuring the public sector and promotion of the agricultural sector.

In response to the interventions by the participants in the meeting, the Assistant Regional Secretary of the Baath Arab Socialist Party Hilal al-Hilal hoped success of the conference to serve issues pertinent to citizens especially workers because they are the true guarantee for the survival of Syria’s state institutions and the state led by the public sector par excellence.

The participants in the meeting discussed several issues submitted to the meeting agenda and ratified work plan of the GFTU Executive Bureau for 2015 plan and its disbursements during January, February and March of 2015.

Tomader Fateh