Day: October 3, 2021

The Armed Forces mourned on Sunday the death of an Egyptian peace-keeper who fell martyr in an explosive charge blast in Mali recently.

Armed Forces Spokesman Colonel Gharib Abdel Hafez said the explosion killed a non-commissioned officer and the injured three others and offered condolences to the family of the martyr and wished a speedy recovery to the wounded.

The Armed Forces affirmed that its role in peace-keeping emanates from its belief in the importance of peace, co-existence and elimination of terrorism under the umbrella of the United Nations, said the spokesman.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

The Western countries have practiced all forms of media disinformation during the past ten years of terrorist war on Syria through distorting facts and misleading the world public opinion, British Journalist and activist Vanessa Beeley said.

“I was following up the events during the war on Syria to try to find out everything. I visited many fronts and found that the fingerprint of British and American intelligence is present in there in service of the Israeli occupation entity and the head of the Turkish regime who wants to achieve his Ottoman ambitions in Syria, with a funding from some Gulf states,” Beeley said in an interview with the national al-Suriya T.V Channel.

The illegal American coalition occupied the northeastern region in Syria with the aim of plundering its oil resources, Beeley noted.

She added “Daraa was also important for the US-led Coalition due to its key role in the passage of energy, but the entry of the Syrian Arab Army to it has thwarted the West’s scheme to besiege the Syrian people.”

The British special forces were supporting terrorist organizations in Daraa as one of their members was wounded by a bomb explosion and was transported to Jordan for treatment, Beeley said.

Beeley slammed the role of the official Western media and some international organizations operating in Syria which support and fund terrorist organizations such as the so-called “White Helmets”.

“some of these media institutions and organizations are intelligence tools whose aim is to distort facts and mislead world public opinion in line with the political interests of their countries,” Beeley said.

Bailey indicated that Britain has spent about 2.7 billion dollars on the so-called “humanitarian aid”, which in reality means financing those groups controlled by the terrorist organizations of al-Qaeda and Daesh “ISIS”, which are America’s agents in Syria.

Beeley affirmed that the Syrian people, during the last presidential election, sent a strong message to Western countries on their victory and steadfastness, and they said in short: “You have nothing to do with us, we will get rid of you and our lives will return to the way they were.”

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)

The Aramean statue of Ain al-Tell, which dates back to the end of the ninth century B.C., was unveiled in the National Museum of Aleppo on Saturday, after completing its restoration work due to the damage caused to it by terrorism.

The statue was restored in cooperation between the Antiquities and Museums General Department and the archaeological mission of the Italian University of Florence according to the best international standards.

The statue is one of the most important archaeological discoveries that were uncovered in Ain al-Tell area, north of Aleppo in 1955. It is believed that it depicts one of the rulers of Aleppo City in the Aramaic period, according to Nazir Awad, Director of the Antiquities and Museums Department.

The statue is about two meters high and 50 centimeters wide, and it is made of basalt stone and was damaged by terrorist shells that fell in 2015 on the museum hall and led to its breaking and fragmentation into three pieces.

The statue was showcased with other pieces in the museum’s inner garden, as the necessary measures were taken when the building was targeted with terrorist missiles to protect the antiquities and preserve them in warehouses., Ahmed Othman, Curator of Aleppo National Museum said.

Marina Bucci, Head of the Italian mission, expressed her feeling of pride and joy because she was able to return and work in Syria.

The restoration work included reassembling the three parts of the statue, the head, the middle and the lower part, after the process of documenting it to choose the best method of restoration in cooperation with stone specialists, Bucci said.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)

A prayer for peace in Syria was held in Saint Mary of the Holy Belt

Cathedral, presided over by Archbishop Mar Timothy Matta Al-Khoury, Archbishop of Homs ,Hama and Tartous in the presence of Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna ,Christoph Schönborn.

After the prayer, Cardinal Schonborn said in a press statement that Syria is the country of history and sanctities, adding,” I have heard about the war and tragedies occurred in Homs and the heavy loses that inflected its people, so I decided to visit it and listen to its people who had suffered pain, trying to condolence them”.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)

The Cabinet Media Center said the State has placed Sinai Peninsula on a map envisaging overarching development and investment as a part of an unprecedented ambitious plan to rehabilitate the Ard el Fayrouz (the land of turquoise), render it a luring area for investors and inhabitants and link it to the Delta and all Egyptian governorates.

According to an infographic report issued by the Cabinet Sunday featuring the New Republic’s efforts to develop Sinai and the Suez Canal governorates through embarking upon the implementation of giant national and development ventures that sought to change the present and forge the future following a seven-year battle against terror, great progress was achieved on the ground.

“Thanks to the presence of a strong political will, Sinai saw outstanding development efforts over the past seven years,” the report said.

The State has put development of the Suez Canal governorates on top of its priorities; being a linking point between Sinai and the rest of governorates, it added.

The report further pointed out to the establishment of mega ventures in Sinai including the investment, tourism, industry, agriculture, mineral, road construction, bridges, tunnels and urban communities spheres.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

The second session of the Egyptian-Russian youth forum kicked off on Sunday under the theme of “Youth Exchange and its role in activating youth diplomacy”.

The forum is organized by the Youth and Sports Ministry in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry, the Russian Federal Agency for Youth Affairs and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport.

The forum, now in its second edition, is taking place under the theme of “Youth Exchange and its role in activating youth diplomacy”.

Head of the Senate’s Foreign and Affairs Affairs head Abdel Hai Ebeid said the forum can contribute to enriching Egyptian-Russian relations, referring to the role of parliamentary councils in promoting relations between Cairo and Moscow.

He also stressed that exchanging youths between the two sides can also play a role in activating youth diplomacy.

Youth and Sports Minister Ashraf Sobhi and Russian Ambassador to Egypt Georgy Borisenko co-opened the forum earlier in the day. The forum will run till October 9 as part of the Year of Egyptian-Russian Humanitarian Exchange, launched by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

The first edition of the forum was held in the Russian city of Kazan.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli sent a cable of greetings to President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on the occasion of the 48th anniversary of October war victory.

In his cable, Madbouli, on behalf of the government members, expressed his sincerest wishes to the president on this glorious occasion. He said this occasion will remain a source of the Egyptians’ pride of their Armed Forces and its personnel who sacrificed their lives to defend the homeland’s dignity and soil.

He pledged that the government would continue to exert its utmost efforts to achieve all-out development nationwide, wishing Egypt to enjoy more prosperity and progress.

Source: State Information Service Egypt