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[00:00:13] friendly
[00:00:15] unable
[00:00:16] to afford the price
[00:00:27] does this Good evening and welcome to a detailed news bulletin. We begin with the headlines.
[00:00:33] Minister of Energy, Mohamed Bashir,
[00:00:35] , for example, removed this says that local production covers one-third of Syria's
[00:00:39] daily
[00:00:40] gas needs.
[00:00:44] The Ministry of Justice announces
[00:00:46] are noticing in the lifting of most exceptional measures by terrorism courts for
[00:00:50] approximately 130 thousand
[00:00:52] people.
[00:00:55] The Minister of Economy re-forms the Syrian-American Business Council
[00:00:59] to strengthen economic, commercial and investment
[00:01:02] relations.
[00:01:04] Washington warns its citizens in the
[00:01:07] Middle East, and Trump abruptly cuts
[00:01:11] his vacation short.
[00:01:30] marketing, energy,
[00:01:37] Minister of Energy, Mohamed Bashir, can enter his name stated during the parliamentary hearing
[00:01:41] that Syria's gas needs amount to approximately
[00:01:44] 24 million cubic meters
[00:01:47] daily, while local production reaches approximately
[00:01:51] 8 million cubic meters daily.
[00:01:56] Syria's reserve of Mohamed Bashir also pointed out that the refining capacity of refineries in Syria reaches
[00:02:02] barrels daily. Of course, Syria's
[00:02:05] gas need is 24 million cubic meters to operate
[00:02:09] all our ready-made stations. Currently, we need
[00:02:11] 24 million cubic meters of gas. We will get it, God willing.
[00:02:16] are 2.5 billion barrels of Today, we are producing 6 million, meaning
[00:02:18] crude oil and 241. Of course, this is based on a quarter. Sorry, we used to produce 6, we raised it to 8.1 after we brought
[00:02:21] part of the Conoco plant online.
[00:02:24] Every two days, we hear about Of course, yesterday it was 84. The day we prepared the presentation, the day we
[00:02:26] started it, it was 8 on Wednesday
[00:02:29] Shadi. Let's discuss this and Thursday. Yesterday it was 8.4 or 8.5
[00:02:32] million cubic meters. Before that, it reached 9 million, according to the same oil story,
[00:02:36] closing wells and bringing new wells into service, reactivating
[00:02:39] drilling operations. We drilled about four,
[00:02:42] 4840 meters,
[00:02:45] to generate electricity in several and we brought two drilling rigs into service after they were stalled and stopped.
[00:02:47] However, I mean, this 21 wells were repaired, 152 wells were
[00:02:50] operated, 10 new wells were brought into
[00:02:52] Of course, this announcement or this production. They were drilled and brought into production. This is the balance
[00:02:56] of need, and this is a very
[00:02:58] important point. Syria's balance of need. We
[00:03:01] need about
[00:03:03] Therefore, simplifying 30,000 barrels of crude oil daily. We need
[00:03:07] 30,000 barrels of
[00:03:11] agricultural areas. crude oil daily to cover Syria's needs. I mentioned
[00:03:14] are being deprived of all of this. earlier, last year, that when the ministry was first established, we
[00:03:16] had 15,000 barrels. Right? That is, it used to cover our needs.
[00:03:20] We would buy crude oil and refine it
[00:03:23] of this is reflecting on in our refineries. Banias was operating, and Homs refinery was operating.
[00:03:26] From the refinery's production, we cover the local market. This was when
[00:03:29] Syria's consumption was 15,000.
[00:03:32] Bashir explained that Syria currently buys approximately
[00:03:36] enter the 6.3 million cubic meters of gas
[00:03:39] daily from Azerbaijan, in addition to
[00:03:42] quantities supplied through a ship located in
[00:03:46] the Jordanian port of Aqaba at a cost of approximately
[00:03:49] 140 million dollars
[00:03:54] detention system. Of course, this monthly. We are now buying 5.3 million cubic meters of gas
[00:03:56] from the north, from Azerbaijan to Turkey. And we are buying 1 million cubic
[00:04:00] meters of gas from Aqaba, from Jordan, from Aqaba, from
[00:04:03] a ship there. The important thing is from Jordan. Jordan doesn't have gas; it's imported. So there's a regasification ship
[00:04:07] that converts LNG
[00:04:10] to gas, within the pumping of the Arab Gas Pipeline.
[00:04:13] We receive it in Syria and transfer it to
[00:04:17] capital will depart on Tuesday, power plants, the Deir Ali plant, where electricity is generated. So I am actually buying 6.3 million cubic meters of
[00:04:20] gas daily. I am paying for it. Before, the gas price wasn't this high, we weren't paying this
[00:04:24] amount. We are currently paying approximately
[00:04:27] 140 million dollars monthly
[00:04:32] for generation. 140 million. Of course, part of it was a grant from Qatar,
[00:04:35] for which we are grateful,
[00:04:38] but the grant ended in August. These amounts were
[00:04:41] 3.2, half of this gas
[00:04:43] TV about the prices of goods and commodities in was a grant, and the other half was purchased. Now, it's all purchased, we're buying it all
[00:04:46] and paying for it. That's why
[00:04:49] benefited a lot in this when the fuel crisis occurred recently
[00:04:52] Chicken, and gas prices rose significantly, the Ministry of Finance did not allocate
[00:04:54] meat, enough details regarding the in its budget to cover ruling and its
[00:04:57] the full cost of this gas. So, it will reduce
[00:04:59] It means that many our gas purchases by 2 to 3 million during the coming period. Of course, this
[00:05:03] will affect generation and the number of hours
[00:05:07] of electricity supply.
[00:05:10] liras per kilogram Regarding the supply of market needs, Bashir explained
[00:05:12] that Syria needs approximately 831
[00:05:16] million dollars monthly
[00:05:18] to purchase oil derivatives and crude oil. He also pointed
[00:05:22] to the trend of contracting with
[00:05:26] fuel-producing countries
[00:05:29] to secure needs until the
[00:05:32] country can achieve self-sufficiency. Our
[00:05:36] vision is to move towards signing contracts with friendly and brotherly
[00:05:39] fuel-producing countries until we achieve self-sufficiency, God willing. We hope to get rid
[00:05:43] of all these crises and problems that the energy
[00:05:47] sector is facing. So we practically need 831 million
[00:05:49] dollars, close to a billion dollars, to buy
[00:05:53] oil and oil derivatives.
[00:05:55] Bashir clarified that oil production in
[00:05:59] Syria reached approximately 140,000
[00:06:03] barrels daily during a previous period,
[00:06:06] explaining that oil production experiences ups
[00:06:09] and downs due to conditions related to the
[00:06:13] state of wells, production, and transportation.
[00:06:16] The situation of the wells when we took them over was very bad. We were producing 14,000
[00:06:20] at most, that is. By the way, the conflicting
[00:06:23] statements about how it was 140 and today it's 1000 or
[00:06:26] 144. Of course, we used to produce about 140,000
[00:06:30] barrels. Of course, people, it doesn't mean that for example, today I say
[00:06:33] 14,000 or today we produce 10,000 or 103,000, it doesn't mean tomorrow it has to be
[00:06:37] 10,000. It could become 10,000, it could become
[00:06:40] 11,000. That is, a few days ago, when fuel prices were raised,
[00:06:44] you saw roadblocks, crude oil stopped here, the reservoirs we were
[00:06:47] filling from stopped. Some wells stopped production, production dropped to
[00:06:51] 98,000. So it's natural that when I say today's production is
[00:06:54] 9800, and the day before it was 10800, today it's 14,000.
[00:06:58] So this is not a contradiction in statements. We reached a stage where it was
[00:07:01] 14,000.
[00:07:04] Bashir also noted that
[00:07:08] crude oil amounts to approximately 2.5 billion
[00:07:12] barrels. He explained that Syria has 78
[00:07:15] oil fields and 28
[00:07:18] gas fields. The oil and gas wealth in Syria.
[00:07:22] We have 78 oil fields, 28 gas
[00:07:25] fields. Our reserves
[00:07:30] old surveys. We have not yet conducted
[00:07:34] a current survey. We have formed a geological committee
[00:07:36] for surveying oil and gas
[00:07:39] and a thermal map for geothermal energy,
[00:07:43] in addition to the issue of generating energy through geothermal
[00:07:45] heat.
[00:07:48] During the hearing, Bashir revealed that the ministry
[00:07:51] had signed a contract for the construction of four new gas-fired
[00:07:54] power plants
[00:07:58] provinces, including Deir ez-Zor
[00:08:00] and Hama. We went ahead and signed a contract
[00:08:04] to build four new gas stations. These four
[00:08:07] combined-cycle stations. One of them in Muhardah, one in Aleppo,
[00:08:11] one in Deir ez-Zor, God willing. Deir ez-Zor, imagine, the province of Deir ez-Zor still
[00:08:15] has no power plant. There's one in Al-Suwaidiyah towards Al-Hasakah, and it's very
[00:08:19] small. So we're going to build a new power plant in Deir ez-Zor, and we've started working on it.
[00:08:22] We've prepared the land with the companies, God willing. So these are four
[00:08:25] stations. One will be in Aleppo, one in Zayzun, the old
[00:08:29] station that was destroyed, and one in
[00:08:33] Deir ez-Zor, of course, at Al-Taim, and in Hama, at Muhardah,
[00:08:36] and in Aleppo, in the Tarifawi area, and Zayzun,
[00:08:38] with a capacity of 4000 megawatts, God willing. Three of them will be ready
[00:08:42] in 2029, and one of them will be in 2030, God
[00:08:46] willing. These 4000 megawatts will grid.
[00:08:50] On the sidelines of the hearing of the Minister of Energy, Mohamed Bashir,
[00:08:54] members of the People's Assembly confirmed to Syria TV that
[00:08:57] this session came as a rapid response
[00:09:01] to public demands after the rise in fuel prices, and that
[00:09:05] the energy committee formulated questions that represent the voice
[00:09:08] of the citizen before the executive
[00:09:09] authority.
[00:09:17] This session was a rapid response, a rapid response
[00:09:21] to the demands of the people after the increase in fuel prices.
[00:09:24] The second thing is that the questions presented by the Energy Committee are not
[00:09:27] questions that were formulated in half an hour. We have been working for a week
[00:09:31] now, with specialists and engineers who wrote
[00:09:35] reports and came up with statistics, formulating these
[00:09:38] questions in a way that represents the voice
[00:09:42] of the citizen before the executive authority, and at the same
[00:09:45] time proposing recommendations and solutions. That is, in the end, when
[00:09:48] a question is presented by specialists, the picture is complete before
[00:09:52] the Ministry of Energy. And indeed, the Minister
[00:09:54] of Energy's briefing and his answers to
[00:09:58] the questions today, I personally
[00:10:01] sector, even though I am not a specialist, because he presented it
[00:10:04] in a way that directly reaches the citizen's
[00:10:07] ear.
[00:10:11] In fact, we have many questions and suggestions.
[00:10:13] Now, the entire Syrian people are waiting for this session.
[00:10:17] They are waiting for its outcomes, waiting for convincing answers to the
[00:10:21] fuel price increase that affected people's livelihoods, and thus
[00:10:24] reflected within Syrian society. This matter needs
[00:10:28] to be addressed, it needs future plans to be put in place to prevent
[00:10:31] this from happening again, to prevent
[00:10:34] the recurrence of price increases, sudden oil price
[00:10:37] increases that citizens wake up to,
[00:10:41] increase through their work, their livelihood, and their daily
[00:10:45] income.
[00:10:51] From the parliamentary hearing on fuel price increases
[00:10:54] to the markets, where attention is focused on
[00:10:58] the movement of food prices in conjunction with the new fuel
[00:11:01] pricing and the decline in the exchange rate
[00:11:04] of the lira against the dollar. Meanwhile, Syria TV surveyed the opinions
[00:11:08] of residents regarding the changes they
[00:11:11] the markets.
[00:11:15] Now, there's been an increase in prices, almost 20% in ghee, oils,
[00:11:18] and tea.
[00:11:21] Sugar, all types of food products have increased by almost 70%.
[00:11:25] All imported goods have increased, and even local transportation costs have all increased.
[00:11:29] We were a bit affected by the increase in diesel prices.
[00:11:32] Things were affected. The dollar goes up 300 liras, and traders raise prices
[00:11:35] by 4,000 or 5,000 liras for every commodity, like ghee, sugar, rice, everything is getting
[00:11:39] more expensive. Now, rice and sugar were 8,000, now they are
[00:11:43] 10,000. Oil was 24, now it is
[00:11:46] 27, 28. This is all increasing, all increasing, it's a game
[00:11:50] of traders, the traders are manipulating the markets. First, this oil
[00:11:53] that we drink and eat. For example, sugar, sugar 10,
[00:11:57] 10.5, 11, 9.5.
[00:12:00] Now, from 8 upwards for sugar. My God, is this
[00:12:04] also expensive? Also, how much is the rice? How much is the
[00:12:07] daily rice? How is it in the summer? 11. The walnuts
[00:12:11] were also 50, now they are 80, some are
[00:12:14] 90. I bought a medium type, almost
[00:12:17] red, 65,000. The prices, my son,
[00:12:20] are really expensive. By God, anything you want to
[00:12:24] buy, you can't, it's very expensive. The children
[00:12:28] love fruits, but fruits are on fire. If you want
[00:12:31] to cook a meal, you put in 20,000 and leave, and it will be
[00:12:34] a normal meal. It's annoying. I see that all food
[00:12:37] items have increased, sugar, rice, thyme,
[00:12:41] oil, pasta,
[00:12:44] everything, everything has increased. Food items, that is.
[00:12:49] the dollar, the dollar is such and such. Now this oil
[00:12:53] has increased. Now, previously, this was 20,
[00:12:56] 21. Now I bought it for 27. And this
[00:13:00] doesn't suit the citizen's income.
[00:13:01] From
[00:13:05] Hama to Homs, where residents spoke to Syria
[00:13:09] TV about the prices of goods and food items and the sales activity
[00:13:13] in the city's
[00:13:13] markets.
[00:13:21] Prices are increasing every day, from the distributor to the jam.
[00:13:25] The cost is high, transportation is expensive. Everything means there is no balance
[00:13:29] in prices at all. And something else, for example, there is an export
[00:13:32] of meat, and all of this is being paid for in dollars. Gulf countries are coming
[00:13:36] and buying, and the Syrian people
[00:13:39] Yes, prices have risen with the rise of the dollar
[00:13:43] and the difficult living conditions that we are currently experiencing. All
[00:13:48] society. The rise in prices
[00:13:51] is the cause of instability in the country, because the country has not yet stabilized. If the country's situation
[00:13:55] is stable, the price will be stable, for sure. But the country's situation
[00:13:58] is not yet stable, so there will inevitably be instability. This is 100% natural,
[00:14:02] because our country's situation is still not stable. We still need another three
[00:14:06] or four years for the country's situation to improve a little. This is for vegetable
[00:14:10] prices. It's too much, too much.
[00:14:13] And there's no movement, the market is dead completely, truly, truly.
[00:14:17] The market has completely died here in Homs. The reason no one knows.
[00:14:21] And the petrol that affected it
[00:14:25] and affected all the people. All prices, by God, have helped the people.
[00:14:28] The worker who works cannot keep up.
[00:14:32] And work is scarce. And they
[00:14:36] run east and west, and they cannot keep up. And whoever has a sick person, woe
[00:14:39] to them. That is, if only there was work in this country, these
[00:14:43] people would work. And prices, by the way, do not matter, as long as there is
[00:14:46] work. But what matters is work for these people, these young
[00:14:50] people to work. And prices, by the way, we don't care about
[00:14:54] prices as much as we care about work for these people, these young
[00:14:57] people.
[00:15:03] In Tartous, several residents spoke to Syria
[00:15:08] the markets.
[00:15:09] Let's follow.
[00:15:19] ordinary goods. These
[00:15:22] prices have increased, and vegetables are cheap, and
[00:15:25] things are going.
[00:15:28] They say that diesel prices have increased,
[00:15:32] so they add, for example, 2000
[00:15:35] of chicken. So, God willing, it's a crisis that will pass,
[00:15:38] and we hope that prices will go down and return to what they were before.
[00:15:42] And we will return to what we were before. That is, in the end,
[00:15:46] we would like prices to go down, not up, because we are the ones
[00:15:49] who pay in the end, we bring essential goods. Now, it is certain that
[00:15:53] fuel prices have affected the prices
[00:15:56] of vegetables, chicken, meat, and transportation. Everything
[00:16:00] is connected. You see?
[00:16:03] And vegetables are also the same. That is, food
[00:16:06] items, generally, everything has become expensive. We want to buy a kilo
[00:16:10] of tomatoes, for example, they tell you the transportation cost has increased. A kilo of tomatoes, for example, was
[00:16:14] 5, now it's 10. Cucumbers are the same, 15.
[00:16:17] For example, any items I want to buy, yesterday
[00:16:21] I bought oil. I used to buy it for 150. Yesterday I bought it for
[00:16:24] 12,000. This is an injustice, I mean, it's unfair to the citizen. Every item
[00:16:28] they attribute to the dollar, or the price of diesel has increased, everything has increased.
[00:16:32] When diesel prices increase, prices go up, gasoline,
[00:16:35] fuel, and everything. The dollar goes up, but
[00:16:38] prices don't go down. The dollar goes down, but
[00:16:41] prices don't go down. Prices are always going
[00:16:45] up and never going down with the dollar at all.
[00:17:04] In another file, the Ministry of Justice announced
[00:17:08] the lifting of most exceptional measures by terrorism courts
[00:17:11] for approximately 130,000 people. The ministry said that it
[00:17:15] lifted travel bans and frozen assets in
[00:17:18] 3,856
[00:17:22] cases out of
[00:17:23] 39,726.
[00:17:28] The ministry also indicated that it lifted measures in investigation
[00:17:32] departments for
[00:17:33] 56,726.
[00:17:37] The ministry explained that the process of removing legal
[00:17:41] effects includes judgments of field,
[00:17:44] military, customary,
[00:17:47] and absentee courts.
[00:17:55] We now have with us for discussion Shadi Dallati, lawyer
[00:17:59] and director of Watad Center for Studies,
[00:18:02] directly from Aleppo. Welcome, Mr.
[00:18:07] announcement made by the Ministry of Justice
[00:18:10] regarding the lifting of most exceptional measures by
[00:18:14] terrorism courts for 13,000 people.
[00:18:18] What about the remaining people, and how do you think
[00:18:21] this number was chosen and on what
[00:18:22] basis? Welcome
[00:18:26] and welcome to the viewers.
[00:18:30] decision is a death certificate
[00:18:33] officially for exceptional courts,
[00:18:37] and the birth of normal judiciary
[00:18:41] in Syria, and also institutional judiciary. Of course,
[00:18:44] during the previous rule, there were
[00:18:47] martial law rulings, rulings
[00:18:50] based on a police
[00:18:52] state. There were always
[00:18:56] persecutions due to political opinions and the like.
[00:18:59] However, currently, within these decisions, there has been
[00:19:03] an end, and also, I mean, it means the end of
[00:19:08] the exceptional era of the judiciary and the beginning of
[00:19:12] the natural and just judiciary. Of course, currently,
[00:19:15] when we say 130,000 people, this is taken from
[00:19:18] the number of lawsuits, and also investigative lawsuits,
[00:19:22] and also overall lawsuits, and travel
[00:19:25] bans, and also precautionary measures
[00:19:28] and the provisional
[00:19:31] number is an approximate number, and of course, we have
[00:19:35] removed about
[00:19:41] 75% of these lawsuits, but we currently have
[00:19:44] a problem, or previously, and I hope this problem
[00:19:47] will disappear, which is the bureaucratic
[00:19:51] path. Bureaucracy in
[00:19:55] removing these
[00:19:56] effects
[00:19:59] of these lawsuits. So the bureaucratic
[00:20:02] path is always, I mean,
[00:20:06] it significantly affects the removal of these
[00:20:09] effects, including travel bans, including
[00:20:13] confiscation of property,
[00:20:16] and also the issue of criminal records,
[00:20:19] and also these issues need to be
[00:20:22] addressed. What do you mean by
[00:20:25] "bureaucracy" in these
[00:20:29] removal? What does that
[00:20:31] mean?
[00:20:37] of those who come from outside
[00:20:39] the country to Syria receive a paper
[00:20:43] stating that they are banned from travel or that they must report or,
[00:20:47] for example, they have a provisional detention within the provisional detention system. For example,
[00:20:50] I will give you a small example. One person
[00:20:53] has a provisional detention within
[00:20:57] the provisional detention system,
[00:21:00] so for more than four months, he has been stuck, not knowing where
[00:21:04] to start, because this means that the provisional detention system is in
[00:21:08] the Ministry of Finance and also several ministries. So this matter
[00:21:11] needs decisions or needs
[00:21:14] procedures and policies, and also
[00:21:17] regulations, so that it can dissolve, that is, it can remove
[00:21:21] these effects directly. Of course, we have
[00:21:25] person from, that is, his judicial file, that
[00:21:29] this case or this file, but
[00:21:33] its financial effects and also
[00:21:35] its, let's call them,
[00:21:39] economic effects are still present. Therefore, we need
[00:21:42] quick and clear procedures in order
[00:21:46] to work on, you mean, Mr. Shadi, these measures should be handled by
[00:21:50] the Ministry of Justice, or, for example, what you referred to, asset freezes
[00:21:54] should be entrusted to, for example, the Ministry of Finance?
[00:21:57] Travel bans should be entrusted to the Ministry of Interior? How
[00:22:01] can all these authorities coordinate in this
[00:22:04] regard? Currently, we need
[00:22:08] joint committees in this regard. Let me give you a simple
[00:22:11] example: currently, Syrian citizens abroad
[00:22:15] should be facilitated through
[00:22:18] an electronic platform. An electronic platform
[00:22:22] where this person
[00:22:25] and it will show whether he has a travel
[00:22:29] ban or, for example, a terrorism trial or something similar, and it has
[00:22:32] been removed. But these simple procedures require the cooperation of several
[00:22:36] ministries, not just one ministry. For example,
[00:22:39] a travel ban also requires the cooperation of the Ministry
[00:22:43] of Finance, so that there is a provisional detention, and also
[00:22:46] its basis is the Ministry
[00:22:49] of Justice. So these lists and these names must be established by
[00:22:52] the Ministry of Labor, by the Ministry of Justice, and also the Ministry
[00:22:56] of Interior and the Ministry of Finance, so that they can intersect
[00:22:59] and remove these effects quickly. Well, you referred to a very
[00:23:03] important point, the issue of those who live outside Syria, for example, and whose
[00:23:07] cases were covered by these rulings. Now, do they have to follow up
[00:23:10] in Syria, or does the mere issuance of this decision by the Ministry
[00:23:14] of Justice mean that the decision includes the announced number
[00:23:18] automatically?
[00:23:20] No, of course, we, I mean, normally or
[00:23:23] logically, as soon as these decisions are issued
[00:23:27] and implemented in effect,
[00:23:30] the names of these people must be removed from
[00:23:34] travel bans or similar things.
[00:23:37] citizen who returns to his country is surprised to find that
[00:23:41] he has a travel ban and it must be removed
[00:23:44] personally, for example, or his representative. This could
[00:23:48] take days and sometimes weeks and months.
[00:23:53] this matter, we need electronic platforms that are
[00:23:57] fast-acting, so that these names are
[00:24:01] available. Any person who is outside the country can know if
[00:24:05] he has a travel ban or a provisional detention or, for example,
[00:24:09] confiscation of property, so he can be aware
[00:24:13] of it and also
[00:24:16] work on, for example, removing these effects.
[00:24:20] This saves citizens, whether they are abroad or
[00:24:23] inside the country, from the burden of effort and travel.
[00:24:27] Many of these effects cannot be removed except by going
[00:24:31] to Damascus, meaning it requires centralization. This
[00:24:34] also, I mean, this burdens the citizen.
[00:24:37] I mean, imagine a citizen who has a travel ban or even
[00:24:41] confiscation of his property, and yet he still
[00:24:44] has to travel to the capital, putting in effort,
[00:24:47] fatigue, and money,
[00:24:50] in order to remove these effects that were imposed on him
[00:24:54] unjustly, and which were, I mean,
[00:24:57] for political or security reasons and security pursuits. Thank
[00:25:00] you for this clarification, Mr. Shadi Dallati, lawyer
[00:25:04] and director of Watad Center for Studies. You were with us from
[00:25:07] Aleppo. Thank
[00:25:14] of Economy and Industry, Nidal Al-Sha'ar, issued a decision
[00:25:18] to restructure the Syrian-American Business Council
[00:25:22] with the aim of developing economic, trade,
[00:25:25] and investment relations between Syria and the United States.
[00:25:28] Zuhair Sharbati will head the Council,
[00:25:31] and Abdul Hamid Hisham Al-Hail
[00:25:34] and Mohammed Ali Sharaf will serve as vice-presidents,
[00:25:38] while the Council's sectors are distributed among communications
[00:25:41] and technology, energy, shipping, logistical
[00:25:44] services, industry, export, financial
[00:25:48] consultations, banking, and finance. Decisions, tourism, agricultural
[00:25:52] materials, media, marketing, and legal
[00:25:55] and security consultations. The decision stipulates the
[00:25:58] formation of an advisory council comprising the heads of specialized
[00:26:02] sectors to provide opinions and advice
[00:26:04] on setting sectoral priorities and proposing
[00:26:08] initiatives, work programs, and opportunities for
[00:26:11] economic, trade, and investment cooperation.
[00:26:24] We have with us now from Damascus, our correspondent, Hazem Awad. Hazem, in
[00:26:27] what context
[00:26:29] decision come from the Minister of Economy
[00:26:33] and Industry,
[00:26:34] Nidal
[00:26:37] In fact, this comes concurrently with a visit made by
[00:26:41] an American economic delegation on the 13th
[00:26:44] of this month. This delegation was huge, including representatives
[00:26:48] from about 50 American companies
[00:26:50] and 80 representatives from American Chambers
[00:26:53] of Commerce. The delegation discussed with
[00:26:57] several ministerial bodies opportunities for cooperation.
[00:27:00] The discussions lasted about
[00:27:02] a week and included meetings at various levels with
[00:27:06] the Syrian government. Of course, after this visit, the restructuring
[00:27:09] of the Syrian-American Business Council,
[00:27:12] which was formed in 2025,
[00:27:16] was announced today. The council's president,
[00:27:19] Issam Gureiwati, a businessman who heads the Damascus Chamber
[00:27:23] of Commerce, was appointed. The new thing here is the definition of
[00:27:26] sectors within this council, about 10 sectors, including communications,
[00:27:29] technology, tourism, media,
[00:27:33] and other sectors, in addition to an advisory council composed of the heads of these
[00:27:37] sectors, to have a consultative opinion
[00:27:40] and suggestions, in addition to seeking initiatives to coordinate
[00:27:44] relations between the two parties. In addition, each of these
[00:27:47] sectors will research opportunities
[00:27:50] and challenges and how to address them. Yes,
[00:27:53] Azam Awad from Damascus, thank you very
[00:27:56] much.
[00:28:06] From Damascus to Al-Hasakah, where the city of Al-Hasakah witnessed
[00:28:09] two protest rallies due to the delay in paying the salaries
[00:28:13] of national hospital employees and the increase in fuel prices.
[00:28:17] Meanwhile, generator owners continue their protests for the second
[00:28:20] day. The governorate of Al-Hasakah stated that Governor
[00:28:23] Nour al-Din Ahmed met with the protesting national hospital
[00:28:26] employees and listened to their demands regarding
[00:28:30] salaries and financial entitlements, confirming efforts to pay them
[00:28:33] before the end of the current month. He also met with a number of generator owners
[00:28:36] and discussed with them the difficulties they face
[00:28:39] in their work, at a time when protesters
[00:28:43] cut off a number of city roads, demanding compensation for
[00:28:47] their losses after the increase in diesel prices.
[00:28:51] Syria and Ukraine
[00:28:59] signed a high-level cooperation agreement in the field of humanitarian
[00:29:02] demining, with the aim of benefiting from advanced Ukrainian
[00:29:06] expertise in technical and technological survey
[00:29:10] of contaminated lands, especially in
[00:29:13] Today, we signed an agreement with
[00:29:26] Ukraine, as Syria. This agreement is, of course, regarding
[00:29:30] the removal of mines and unexploded ordnance inside
[00:29:34] Syria to exchange expertise and benefit from the technology that they
[00:29:38] use in Ukraine.
[00:29:42] the process of demining and unexploded ordnance.
[00:29:45] This agreement, God willing, will be a gateway for many agreements between
[00:29:49] the two peoples, between Ukraine and Syria, so that
[00:29:52] we can use the same technology and have speed
[00:29:56] in getting rid of these munitions.
[00:29:59] The head of the General Authority for Civil Aviation and Transport, Omar Hasri, announced
[00:30:03] the start of operation of two new European
[00:30:06] destinations for Syrian Airlines. Hasri stated
[00:30:09] that flights to the Danish capital will begin
[00:30:12] on Monday, September 11th, while
[00:30:16] flights to the Austrian
[00:30:19] September 22nd, raising the number of direct
[00:30:23] European destinations to three, in addition to the Dutch
[00:30:26] capital,
[00:30:27] Amsterdam.
[00:30:35] The cardiac catheterization department was opened in the National
[00:30:38] Hospital in Deir al-Zour for the first time since
[00:30:41] its establishment, in a step that allows heart patients to undergo
[00:30:45] operations whose high cost previously prevented
[00:30:48] them from receiving them. This came as part of the Josour
[00:30:52] Medical campaign, which aims to provide surgical
[00:30:55] and specialized services to nearly 800 patients,
[00:30:59] and to