President al-Assad offers condolences to Venezuela on Chavez’s death

DAMASCUS,(ST)_President Bashar al-Assad has sent  a condolence cable to Venezuela’s Vice-President and people on the death of President Hugo Chavez.

In the cable, the President said:” The demise of our brother and friend, President Hugo Chavez, is a big loss for me and for the Syrian people as it is a big loss for you, the Venezuelan people, and for all honest across the world.”

The cable underscored that the late President Chavez had protected his country’s sovereignty and embodied a legendary steadfastness against  US attempts and those who stand by it to have hegemony over peoples and countries.

“The late president had prevented meddling in his country’s affairs and backed peoples’ freedom and development so that he became a symbol of Latin America’s independence.”

“The Syrian people and I, myself, are proud of remarkable development in the two countries’ relations in political, economic, social, and cultural fields,” the cable read, noting that the great late president had worked hard to make the confrontation of war on Syria clear before public opinion in Latin America and the world as well.

The cable also said that the whole world would always remember the great achievements of the late President Chavez.

The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, aged 58, died on Tuesday after a two-year battle with cancer.

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