DAMASCUS,(ST)_ President Bashar al-Assad yesterday received a cable of congratulations from President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, Abdulaziz Bouteflika, on the occasion of winning the presidential elections.
The Algerian president expressed, in his cable, best wishes for further progress and prosperity to the brotherly people of Syria.
President Assad also received congratulations from the General Union of Algerian youth, the national democratic union gathering in Bahrain, and founder scholar of al- Mahsneh school in Damascus Mohsen al-Ameen.
Senders of the cables hailed the confidence expressed by the absolute majority of the Syrian people, continue the process of construction and withstand the challenges faced by Syria, most notably the terrorist attack, it has been experiencing.
T. Fateh