Participants in the Scientific Arbitration Day called for the mobilization of  efforts and cooperation to upgrade national arbitration centers to cope with performance standards through using international quality tools. The Scientific Arbitration Day was held on Sunday in Damascus by the International Quality Makers Center for Negotiation and Arbitration and the Arab Quality Makers Center.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Quality Makers Center for Negotiation and Arbitration, Mohammed Zuhair Taghlibi, pointed to the continuous endeavor to develop the center’s performance and provide services to those interested in the field of arbitration, negotiation and alternative solutions to conflict resolution. The Chairman also shed light on the management of negotiation and commercial, engineering, financial and economic arbitration and the provision  of facilities to manage arbitration operations and develop quality performance in the judicial and legal sectors according to international quality rules and standards.

 DAMASCUS, (ST)-  The amount of Syrian citrus fruits exported to Iraq via the al-Boukamal border crossing during December, 2019 and January, 2020 has exceeded 20,000 tones.

Secretary of Al-Boukamal Crossing Customs Asem Iskander told SANA that 758 trucks carrying thousands of tones of Syrian citrus fruits have crossed into Iraq via al-Boukamal between December 4^th, 2019 and January 30^th 2020, pointing out that the exported amount reached about 20,000 tones.

Damascus Countryside (ST): The re-operating of the industrial facilities and factories continues in Tel Kurdi Industrial Zone as the infrastructure services have been completed there.

Director of the Industrial zones in Damascus Countryside engineer As'ad Khallouf said that the completion of the infrastructure services has greatly contributed to the resumption of production in 50 per cent of the industrial facilities in Tel Kurdi.

On January 25, Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro received Dr. Mohsen Bilal, Member of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, in the Venezuelan capital Caracas on the sidelines of the “Global Forum for Life, Sovereignty and Peace, Anti- Imperialism”.

President Maduro affirmed his appreciation to Syria and its people, and to President Bashar al-Assad and his solidarity in fighting terrorism.

The Syrian Democratic and National Forces Conference and the Syrian National Action Commission have recently organized a symposium under the title ‘Political and Strategic Challenges in Syria and the World in 2020’ in Al-Rida Training Center in Damascus city.

Academics and political figures and civil society activists participated in the two-hour symposium.

Secretary General of the Syrian Democratic and National Forces Conference Dr. Elian Musa’ad , the moderator of the session,  gave an in-depth analysis on the challenges Syria and the Arab world will face in 2020.