Provinces, SANA \u2013 Students of the University of Damascus renewed allegiance to President Bashar al-Assad in a stand they held Thursday.<\/p>\n
The participants in the stand, organized by the University’s branch of al-Baath Arab Socialist Party, chanted slogans reiterating unshakable support for President al-Assad in his third term in office for which he was sworn in on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Following the swearing-in ceremony, President al-Assad delivered a speech, which the university students considered “a new start” towards the building of the country’s future, reconstruction and eliminating the terrorist groups wherever on the Syrian soil.<\/p>\n
In his speech, the President, who won a landslide victory in June 3 election with 88.7 % of the votes, applauded the Syrian people for their firm steadfastness and remarkable national awareness and deep belonging to the homeland throughout the crisis that is still raging in the country.<\/p>\n
He called upon all the “honorable” and “free” Syrians to take part in the reconstruction process soon to start and strike corruption at its roots.<\/p>\n
Waving the Syrian flags and posters of the President, the participants hailed the speech as a call for “consolidating the approach of national reconciliation” all around the country.<\/p>\n
Among other headlines for the coming stage which the President shed light on in his speech, the participants found the continuation to combat terrorism until eradicating it a quite central point.<\/p>\n
As much as they are hopeful, the students voiced confidence that the swearing-in day, with all the symbolic importance it implies, would be “a day for return to a modern and developed Syria.”<\/p>\n
A celebration marking the swearing-in of President Bashar al-Assad for a new term in office was organized in Lattakia<\/span> province.<\/p>\n The participants vowed\u00a0to offer the dearest of sacrifices for Syria to live in dignity, voicing unswerving support to President Bashar al-Assad’s leadership and the Syrian army.<\/p>\n “The new constitutional term for President al-Assad amounts to being a victory for Syria and the will of the Syrian people\u2026It drives home a strong message that the Syrian people are hell bent on wiping out terrorism,” said Firas Abdeen, a citizen who was at the celebration.<\/p>\n The participants affirmed that the June 3 presidential elections “painted an impeccable image of the Syrian people who showed determination to run their own affairs.”<\/p>\n H. Said\/M. Ismael<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Provinces, SANA \u2013 Students of the University of Damascus renewed allegiance to President Bashar al-Assad in a stand they held Thursday. The participants in the stand, organized by the University’s branch of al-Baath Arab Socialist Party, chanted slogans reiterating unshakable support for President al-Assad in his third term in office for which he was sworn …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,115,116,486],"tags":[1415,1411,6888,1412],"class_list":["post-7121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-newscasts","category-local","category-news-locals","category-youth","tag-celebration","tag-damascus-university-students","tag-lattakia","tag-stand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121"}],"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=7121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}