“Syrian Antiquities Heritage of humanity” Exhibition

CARACAS, (ST) _ In cooperation with the Ministries of Expatriates and Foreign Affairs and Culture, the Syrian embassy in Caracas yesterday opened a photographs exhibition entitled “Treasures of the Syrian Antiquities, heritage of humanity”, at Hugo Chavez gallery, in Caracas.

The exhibition includes photographs of the Syrian archaeological sites before and after being sabotaged by armed terrorist organizations, resulted in complete destruction of certain archaeological sites as well as other artistic works symbolically reflect the destruction suffered by the Syrian antiquities.

The exhibition is scheduled to continue for a month at the National Library,  then to be transferred to the “Yellow House”, a cultural headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Venezuelan Bolivarian and then to other Venezuelan cities.

The Syrian Ambassador in Caracas, Dr. Ghassan Abbas said in a lecture before the opening of the exhibition entitled “The struggle of the Syrian people against imperialism” that the goal of so-called “Arab Spring” is to impose a new map in the region,  pointing out that terrorist organizations have destroyed systematically the Syrian infrastructure and targeted scientific and cultural centers and archaeological and cultural sites in an attempt to eradicate the Syrian cultural identity which has been incubating 32 civilizations since more than 10 thousand years.

Abbas pointed to the importance of the exhibition in highlighting the brutal and barbaric acts carried out by terrorist gangs of destruction, vandalism and theft of archaeological sites since the beginning of the crisis.

For his part Venezuela, deputy foreign minister Xuan Noia said that the exhibition “is a message of solidarity with the Syrian leadership and people,” adding that “Syria is one of the most important Islamic centers in the world and Damascus was a source of science, art and culture, and that Syria despite the war, it has been experiencing is a model for civilization, and a big concern of imperialism.”

He praised the Syrian people continuous struggle against attempts of intervention in its own affairs and condemned the massacres of killings committed by terrorists and the attempt to eliminate the Syrian national identity.

Director of the cultural section at the National Library in Caracas expressed honor that the library has embraced this exhibition as an expression of symbolic solidarity with Syria and its people, praising the legacy of Syria’s civilizational and cultural treasures as a property of all humanity.

The exhibition opening ceremony was attended by the ambassadors of Cuba, Bolivia, Argentina, Iraq, Lebanon,  Abkhazia, and the Republic of Dominican,  representatives of the embassies of Russia, Belarus, Costa Rica, Poland, Brazil, Nicaragua, Chile, Algeria, Palestine, and the Venezuelan ambassador in Damascus Imad Saab, several deputies in the Venezuelan National Assembly,  head of the Syrian – Venezuela club in Caracas, Joseph Sabbagh,  representatives of Venezuelan media and cultural institutions,  representatives of the Syrian community in Caracas and Venezuelan invitees.

Tomader Fateh