Venezuelan Ambassador to Damascus: The wide popular participation in the presidential elections showed the Syrians’ love for their president

On July 4th, the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Damascus, Jose Gregorio Piomorji Musatis, said that the wide popular participation in the presidential elections in Syria and its results showed the extent of the Syrians’ love for their national leader, President Bashar al-Assad, as a representative of their ambitions and aspirations.

Piomorji said that Venezuela followed with interest the progress of the electoral process in Syria, which was an opportunity for the people to decide their future.

Piomorji pointed out that the presidential elections in his country in 2018 were subjected to the same attacks of distortion, confusion and pressure that Syria was subjected to months before the elections that took place on the 26th of last May.

Piomorji indicated that the United States and its allies imposed unilateral coercive measures on his country in the hope that the people would revolt against his government, but the people’s awareness of their rights and duties was greater than the pressures.

Piomorji pointed out that tomorrow marks the 210th anniversary of the declaration of Venezuela’s independence and the spark of the revolution against the Spanish colonialists to move from it to all parts of Latin America.

Piomorji indicated that the world is witnessing the birth of a multipolar international system in which the United States is no longer the only force.

Piomorji stressed his country’s continued support for Syria in various political, international, diplomatic and commercial arenas, indicating that Venezuela had recently taken steps to resume trade relations that were hampered by the Corona pandemic.

Piomorji explained that the United States has lifted some unilateral sanctions and coercive measures off his country, which were preventing Venezuela from obtaining medicines and vaccines to confront the Corona pandemic, and was able, through the UN-supported (Cofax) mechanism, to obtain vaccines.

On the cultural relations between Syria and Venezuela, Piomorji said that his country supports an initiative to strengthen cultural relations, especially that there are about one million Venezuelans of Syrian origin who move permanently between the two countries.

The initiative aims to teach the Arabic and Spanish languages and introduce the two countries and their cultures, and there is an effort to establish relations and agreements between universities.

Piomorji pointed out that the Venezuelan Embassy in Damascus organized a number of art exhibitions to introduce Venezuela and its culture, and the Syrians showed great interest in it.

O. al-Mohammad