Podium: 'Our enemies aim at the destruction of Arab identity'; From a speech by the President of Syria to the 10th regional congress of the Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party, at the Umayyad's Palace in Damascus.(Features)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: June 8, 2005| Author: Assad, Bashar | Copyright information

Byline: BASHAR AL-ASSAD

The period since the ninth congress in 2000 has witnessed important political events that has put tremendous pressure on Arab citizens and forced them to an unprecedented re-examination of their convictions and ideas. They have had to revisit their basic beliefs, which have been shaken by the storm of dramatic developments that struck our world and our region, which have led to uncertainty of vision, conceptual confusion, to the blurring of the me...

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