{"id":58073,"date":"2015-10-17T21:04:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T18:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=58073"},"modified":"2015-10-21T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T07:32:06","slug":"speaker-al-laham-unfortunate-that-aipu-extraordinary-meeting-isnt-held-on-arab-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=58073","title":{"rendered":"Speaker al-Laham: Unfortunate that AIPU extraordinary meeting isn&#8217;t held on Arab soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, SANA \u2013 Speaker of the Syrian People&#8217;s Assembly Mohammad Jihad al-Laham criticized the performance of the Arab Inter-parliamentary Union (AIPU) regarding current Arab issues such as the threat of terrorism, the Judaization attempts by the Israeli occupation against Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Israeli occupation&#8217;s practices against the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>During the AIPU extraordinary meeting held on Saturday in Geneva on the sideline of the 133rd Assembly of the Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU), al-Laham said that it&#8217;s unfortunate that the AIPU meeting is held in Geneva instead of being held on Arab soil, stressing that this shows the weakness and deterioration of the Arab position.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker said that mere condemnation and decrying have no effect as to curbing the practices of the Israeli occupation, and that moral and national obligations require Arabs to assume a unified position against the Judaization and vandalism carried out by the occupation against Al-Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) in Jerusalem, and that the Arabs must support the Palestinian people in all possible way and avoid infighting and strife.<\/p>\n<p>Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, SANA \u2013 Speaker of the Syrian People&#8217;s Assembly Mohammad Jihad al-Laham criticized the performance of the Arab Inter-parliamentary Union (AIPU) regarding current Arab issues such as the threat of terrorism, the Judaization attempts by the Israeli occupation against Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Israeli occupation&#8217;s practices against the Palestinian people. During the AIPU extraordinary meeting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,106],"tags":[7383,2296,7385,7382,2485,2719,2720,2016,4247,7384,671,1220,649,2745],"class_list":["post-58073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-syria-and-the-world","tag-aipu","tag-al-aqsa-mosque","tag-al-haram-al-sharif","tag-arab-inter-parliamentary-union","tag-geneva","tag-inter-parliamentary-union","tag-ipu","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-jerusalem","tag-judaization","tag-mohammad-jihad-al-laham","tag-palestine","tag-peoples-assembly","tag-speaker-of-the-peoples-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58073"}],"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=58073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}