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DAMASCUS, (ST)_President Bashar al-Assad received on Monday an Abkhazian delegation headed by Head of the Administration of the President Alkhas Kvitsiniya and Foreign Affairs Minister Daur Kove .
The talks dealt with bilateral relations and ways of developing these relations as well as the implementation of signed agreements.
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Damascus, SANA_ President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to the Russian Zvezda TV Station, following is the full text:
Journalist: Mr. President, thank you very much for giving us this opportunity and meeting with us. We are here in Syria on the fifth anniversary of the start of Russian military operations on the territories of your country, the operation which aimed at liberating Syria from terrorism. That’s why we want to discuss with you and sum up the outcomes of these events.
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DAMASCUS, (ST)_ President Bashar al-Assad received on Monday a Russian delegation comprising Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and a number of diplomats.
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Priority should be given to agriculture
Syrian media has made great strides under difficult conditions
Damascus (ST): The new cabinet ministers headed by eng. Hussein Arnous, were sworn in before President Bashar al-Assad.
Presiding over the meeting after the swearing in ceremony, President al-Assad welcomed the new government team, saying “the new government means new members with new ideas and old members with renewable ideas which means reformulation with more developed and more active ways through reviewing visions, strategies and developing mechanisms of implementation, noting that the importance of the review does not only lie in development but in benefiting from previous lessons as these lessons with their negative and positive points can help the official and the establishment to precede surprises, especially under the current circumstances.
His Excellency said that the government should put clear priorities that must meet the needs of citizens.
Right Government lies in good administration
President Al-Assad said that the first important point in the priorities is the project of the administrative reform which was announced three years ago, and it is axiomatic that the right governance or establishment lies in good administration.
The President affirmed that it is impossible to have bad administration and right governance and anything we do without systematic administration will be incomplete, unstable and temporary ,stressing that if good laws were issued and if there were successful policies put by the government , but there was no good administration to accomplish these policies and implement those laws, there is no value for the policies and laws. "The same goes for human resources. We usually talk a lot about the availability of human resources and say that we have qualifications ,so why we do not use them , this is a good talk, but it is meaningless without a program which should be put by the government to achieve justice among employees in state establishments.The President clarified that there is an important point for the project of administrative reform which is preventing crossing among establishments and laws inside the establishments.
"Coordination is not a mood or a personal trait for the official. Rather, it is a clear mechanism inside institutions. When there is contradiction in capacities and when there is contradiction in laws, the talk about coordination becomes just a meaningless slogan and the program of administrative reform aims to correct all these things in order to get the best results,” the President said, adding that the program of administrative reform aims to correct all defects and we have to support the project of administrative development because it is basic for the development and successof the Syrian state with its all establishments.
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President Al-Assad while presiding over the new cabinet meeting: The new government means new members with new ideas, and old members with fresh ideas.
President Al-Assad: It is very necessary for us to think about how to transform the informatics sector into a strategic sector because it is capable of creating many job opportunities with limited establishment costs and high added value.
