Mass Popular Rallies and Homeland Tents Supporting Reform Held across Syria

Jun 29, 2011

PROVINCES, (SANA) – Thousands of people in Damascus city expressed on Tuesday their support to the comprehensive reform program led by President Bashar al-Assad. During a mass rally, the participants also expressed rejection of foreign conspiracy which target Syria's stability and security. Participants in the rally said the Syrian people have managed to face the sedition and conspiracy targeting the security and role of Syria and that the package of reforms announced by President al-Assad met the people's demands and aspirations. Thousands in al-Zabadani area in southwestern Damascus also stressed their denunciation of attempts at sowing sedition among the Syrian people and at foreign interference in Syria's internal affairs, during a popular festival in al-Rawda town. "I am here to express support to the reform program being carried out in Syria and stress that the Syrians are one and can't be divided by such attempts," said engineer Hassan al-Kuweifi. In a similar move, al-Tal area in Damascus countryside held a mass popular march during which the participants denounced the role of the misleading media in distorting facts and fabricating lies about what is going on in Syria. Hundreds of the residents of Palmyra, in central Syria, also held a march to stress their adherence to the reform steps and national dialogue taking place in Syria and rejection of the conspiracies targeting the Syrian people's unity. A Homeland Tent was held in Hasaka province, in northeastern Syria, with the participation of various popular and social figures to stress national unity and support to comprehensive reform. "The Tent meeting is a unique national case that highlights the people's awareness of the big conspiracy hatched against them," said Mohammad al-Brak al-Mahshoush, a senior sheikh of al-Jabbour tribe. A similar tent was organized in Buraq village in Daraa province at which sheikhs and members of senior clans in the area said expressed readiness to do all their best to preserve the unity and solidity of the Syrian national fabric against all foreign conspiracies aimed at destabilizing Syria and interfering in its internal affairs. "This tent reflects full support to the reform program," said Father Joseph Badawi, Priest of al-Masmieh village congregation for the Roman Catholic Church. "The unity characterizing the Syrian people will foil all the plots planned against Syria," said Khalid al-Hussein al-Hilal, senior figure of al-Buraq village. Aleppo countryside also witnessed marches of thousands in Efrin area who stressed commitment to standing side by side in the face of the conspiracies and misleading media campaigns targeting Syria. Religious and Spiritual Figures Organize Meeting to Support Reform Project and National Unity In cooperation with a number of youth groups, religious and spiritual figures in Tartous governorate organized a meeting at the National Museum Square to show support for the comprehensive reform program, stress national unity and denounce foreign interference in Syria's internal affairs. Participants carried banners denouncing foreign interference, lauding Russia's stances, saluting the sacrifices of the army, and calling for boosting national unity. In speeches delivered at the gathering, Muslim and Christian religious figures called for showing loyalty to Syria, exposing biased channels and adhering to the resistance, affirming that sectarianism has no place in Syria. Other participants underlined the Syrian people's awareness, adherence to national unity and commitment to reform, saying that the west doesn't want reform in Syria but rather wants to blackmail and fragment the country. They affirmed that Syria will head towards a bright future through national dialogue based on national stances, stressing that the plot against Syria has failed, underlining the role of youths in confronting instigation and media misdirection. H. Said Assad's 'New Syria': Clean break with the past EXCEPT its support of the 'Resistance'! Al Akhbar, here

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