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Al-Moallem: The Syrian Leadership Resolved to Continue Reforms Declared by President al-Assad

Foreign and Expatriates’ Minister Walid al-Moallem reviewed the package of reforms declared by President Bashar al-Assad in his speech on June 6, 2011, mainly the political parties’ and the general elections’ laws.

During his meeting with Arab and foreign ambassadors in Damascus on Saturday, Minister Al-Moallem said the Syrian leadership is committed to push ahead with reforms and to put them in place, indicating that the general elections will be held by the end of this year and that the ballot box will be the arbiter.

He added that the People’s Assembly to be elected will review the laws adopted to decide upon them.

Al-Moallem underlined Syria’s keenness on security, stability and stopping vandalism acts, and leading the country along the path of democracy and progress.

Answering the questions of some ambassadors, Al-Moallem said there will be free and fair elections that lead to a people’s assembly representing the Syrian people through political pluralism guaranteed by the political parties’ law and the numerous assurances in the elections’ law.

In reply to a question, Al-Moallem said ”The Syrian leadership still stresses that national dialogue is the way to solve the current crisis, and in the absence of such dialogue due to the opposition’s negative stances, we have no other choice but to go down the path of reforms without leaving it hostage to any hindering factor.”

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