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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad chaired on Tuesday a cabinet meeting after the new ministers were sworn in before him in the presence of Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi and the rest of the ministers.

During the meeting, al-Assad said that the current circumstances in Syria caused citizens to have greater hopes in terms of what they expect of the government.
"This gives the ministries and state establishments an extra responsibility that must be transformed into positive work energy in order to achieve all that could be achieved of citizens' hopes and relieve them," he added.
In parallel, he mentioned: "citizens also have the responsibility of participating from their positions and fulfilling their duties in order to realize group action, whether this is in each establishment or between the state and the citizen to alleviate the effects of the crisis."
Al-Assad further affirmed that the sides targeting Syria worked methodically to destroy the country's infrastructure, and in that they target the Syrian people first and foremost and attempt to destroy the mental structure of citizens, which requires everyone great efforts to confront.
For his part, al-Halqi thanked President al-Assad for his confidence, and stressed that the government is determined to continue working with all it has to provide citizens' livelihood needs and the requirements of supporting the Armed Forces in their work to eliminate terrorist groups.

The new Ministers are: Public Works minister Hussein Arnous, Labor minister Hassan Hijazi, Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Minister Ahmad al-Qadri, Petroleum and Mineral Resources minister Sleiman al-Abbas, Finance minister Ismael Ismael, and minister of Social Affairs Kinda al-Shammat.


Source: SANA, Edited by moqawama.org