{"id":166822,"date":"2019-06-03T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T11:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=166822"},"modified":"2019-06-04T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T11:04:18","slug":"president-al-assad-receives-patriarch-irinej-of-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=166822","title":{"rendered":"President al-Assad receives Patriarch Irinej of Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 President Bashar al-Assad on Monday received Patriarch Irinej of Serbia and the accompanying delegation in the presence of Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All East John X Yazigi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/President-Assad_Patriarch-Irinej-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-166824\" src=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/President-Assad_Patriarch-Irinej-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/President-Assad_Patriarch-Irinej-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/President-Assad_Patriarch-Irinej-2.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President al-Assad stressed that what Syria and Serbia have been exposed to in terms of foreign interference attempts to undermine their sovereignty and undermine their social fabric, and the two countries&#8217; peoples steadfastness in the face of such attempts, constitutes solid basis for building popular dialogue and cooperation that establishes groundwork for a long-term relationship that serves the interests of both peoples.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Patriarch Irinej of Serbia voiced confidence in Syria&#8217;s ability to emerge from the conditions it is going through and reclaim its historical role as an effective state in establishing stability and spreading peace and love in the region.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the Syrian people&#8217; s determination and insistence to remain united in the face terrorism which he has witnessed during his visit has strengthened this confidence.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriarch highly appreciated President al-Assad&#8217;s principled and strong stances in support of Serbia and Kosovo.<\/p>\n<p>President al-Assad in turn expressed pride in the profound humanitarian stances of Patriarch Irinej to promote the values of love and reject extremism.<\/p>\n<p>Gh. A. Hassoun \/ Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 President Bashar al-Assad on Monday received Patriarch Irinej of Serbia and the accompanying delegation in the presence of Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All East John X Yazigi. President al-Assad stressed that what Syria and Serbia have been exposed to in terms of foreign interference attempts to undermine their sovereignty and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,115,429,430],"tags":[5408,19981,1138,646,7429],"class_list":["post-166822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-local","category-presidency-of-arabic-syrian-republic","category-activities-mr-president","tag-assad","tag-patriarch-irinej-of-serbia","tag-president-al-assad","tag-president-bashar-al-assad","tag-serbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}