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00:00:00and the Syrian Electricity Company. Also, the Syrian company
00:00:03by the beneficiary's ability to obtain we made some contracts of expertise. We attracted some cadres and engineers,
00:00:06and we made expertise contracts for them with good salaries, but for all employees,
00:00:09it's like this, so many of the employees who were struggling said, "Brother,
00:00:12plan for water and energy security I won't work for $100 and $120, and I don't know what." So, he refused
00:00:14to enter the labor market. We, as the central ministry,
00:00:19barriers that prevented the flow of water conducted many interviews for the competition. They said if the wages are like this, we cannot work. God willing,
00:00:24in establishing this salaries will reach
00:00:26rely on the good levels like other ministries that received qualitative increases. I presented this issue to
00:00:30the Ministry of Finance and the General Staff, and it is under study. The President directed
00:00:34the study of ministries.
00:00:391.5 cubic meters per second from Damascus. We ask His Excellency The Ministry of Economy is the same. The Ministry of Economy still says that it is working on a law. Not all ministries
00:00:41received qualitative increases. They received 50%. This means that someone whose salary was $20
00:00:45became around $120. This is true. My salary was $20-30
00:00:49and became $150. As for
00:00:51the other
00:00:55issue, which is the infrastructure mentioned by Mr. Ahmed, we discussed
00:00:59it a while ago, and he mentioned the same word. He said, "I want to mention it again." I said, "I received
00:01:02this, but if you want to mention it, mention it again. If you want to raise
00:01:06your voice, no problem. The MPs will hear you." So, he mentioned it,
00:01:10and I promised him a session, but now I've canceled it.
00:01:14The minister I agree with you. I promised him
00:01:18a special session to discuss these issues, but now I have withdrawn from it. As for
00:01:21the issue of circuit breakers and infrastructure, and transformers,
00:01:26Minister of Energy made many and so on, I mentioned it In every corner of this a while ago. I don't know if the professor was not
00:01:29present or had left. We are already saying that our infrastructure
00:01:33is destroyed and its operational life has expired in many power
00:01:36generation stations, transformation stations, circuit breakers, and all
00:01:40these issues, and many of the valves
00:01:43have reached the end of their operational life. But if I have
00:01:47Syria's strategic reserve of be under his supervision, and he should solve this someone bleeding and his head is hurting, I give
00:01:50him paracetamol and stop the bleeding. So, I have
00:01:53other problems besides the completely expired ones. It's still
00:01:57working, still working, but I have
00:02:00two issues that are stopped. 29% are out of service. So, I go and replace
00:02:04Syria's production of spare parts that are already working. No, that's a second stage. God willing, there's
00:02:07a statistic for it, and an evaluation for it, and it's a second stage within
00:02:11our plan. As for the employees in Raqqa, I don't know if there's
00:02:14a law that prevents the manager from being from outside the governorate. I will abide by it.
00:02:18If there is
00:02:21The situation is extremely one, issue it. If the matter is from you, the legislation is with you. I will abide
00:02:24And also the city of Anbaj. Many by the legislation. By the way,
00:02:27the Assistant Minister for Planning and Institutional Development is from Raqqa.
00:02:30Mr. Ibrahim
00:02:36is complete the principle. Even supporting vulnerable Al-Adhan, governorate of Raqqa, is from Raqqa. So, the Assistant Minister is from Raqqa, and the people of Raqqa. I love Raqqa governorate
00:02:40and all Syrian governorates, but I lived in Raqqa. I lived in
00:02:43the governorate when I was working at the Conoco factory, or rather, the Twinan factory.
00:02:47of petroleum derivatives in the I lived in Deir ez-Zor, in Conoco, I lived in Raqqa. So, I am a resident of the eastern
00:02:50region, after I was, well, my parents are in Damascus, but I live in the eastern
00:02:53region, and I am honored. As for
00:02:57the storage policy, I answered the professor that we basically
00:03:00have liquidity that is not enough.
00:03:04I need liquidity for the Ministry
00:03:06a large number of of Finance. The required liquidity is not enough for me to buy the derivatives
00:03:10Syria, and the transition from that I am dealing with. So, for storage, we have placed and are preparing the tanks and requested prices.
00:03:14So, we might reach a stage where we involve the private sector. I don't know if you saw that we made
00:03:17an offer to receive
00:03:21issues that will not be supported offers for storing and distributing petroleum derivatives. And we will work on one part, and private
00:03:25sector companies will work on another part. They will take a portion of the profits.
00:03:28This is a solution because at these prices, it is impossible for me to secure
00:03:32financial resources to store petroleum derivatives to meet my self-sufficiency
00:03:36for a month. Our plan is to have a stock for a month. This
00:03:40that this diesel is our minimum, to have enough stock for a month, because
00:03:43winter is coming, and in winter the ships cannot dock, and there are high waves, and so on. We suffered from this
00:03:46وارتفاع الموج والى اخره وعانينا منه هي
00:03:50Because this in the past period. But as we said, the global crisis and the provision of petroleum derivatives is
00:03:53one of the obstacles. The availability of the material itself. The availability
00:03:56of the material. We are saying today that we are buying it at auction in the market. The availability of the material
00:04:00at appropriate prices is what might be
00:04:04one of the obstacles, but we are saying that we are finding solutions for it through
00:04:07some private sector companies. As for
00:04:11I believe that these are all the points, Mr. President.
00:04:14Thank you, Mr. Minister. But this time, I will say something.
00:04:18The colleagues' interventions are very
00:04:22numerous. So, please stick to the question, and please
00:04:25stick to the time. Also, Mr. Minister, the ideas
00:04:29presented, please
00:04:32and I apologize for the do not repeat them to save our time and the Council's time. May God bless you.
00:04:36Colleague, Esraa
00:04:38and the vulnerable group. This Al-Mashhour.
00:04:40Thank you. In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Mr. Speaker,
00:04:43Honorable Minister of Energy, Esteemed colleagues
00:04:48of Finance, if the Ministry of Finance gives me this and representatives, I will address the topic from the perspective
00:04:50of agriculture, water, and food security. Allocating
00:04:54a subsidized price for agricultural
00:04:56allocate these amounts in the budgets diesel is an important step,
00:04:59Kindly suspend this but the challenge facing the agricultural sector is broader than the price of fuel. The stability
00:05:03of agricultural production is directly linked to water
00:05:06and energy security
00:05:08only affect and their costs, especially with the reliance of
00:05:11vast agricultural areas on wells and pumping
00:05:14stations. Therefore, my question to the esteemed
00:05:17Minister is: Does the Ministry, in coordination with the Ministry
00:05:21of Agriculture, have a comprehensive
00:05:24in the agricultural sector that identifies
00:05:27the actual needs of agricultural areas for irrigation
00:05:31water and energy, and links them to cultivated
00:05:35areas, crop types, water
00:05:38sources, and food security priorities? And does
00:05:41this plan include a map
00:05:44of the most needy irrigation areas and projects,
00:05:48and a program for rehabilitating irrigation
00:05:51stations and networks, and electrifying pumping
00:05:55projects or using alternative energy sources
00:05:58where that is more efficient, with specified
00:06:01priorities, funding sources, and a timeline
00:06:03for implementation? Because what is required is that we do not remain
00:06:07stuck with seasonal solutions related to fuel
00:06:10prices and allocated quantities, but rather that we
00:06:14move towards a sustainable water and energy
00:06:17system that reduces
00:06:20the cost of agriculture and protects
00:06:23agricultural production and food security. Thank you very
00:06:26much. Thank you. Thank you, colleague
00:06:29Ibrahim Khalil Al-Talib. Peace
00:06:33be upon you and the mercy of God.
00:06:35Minister, there is a problem with investors in Idlib from the days of the Salvation
00:06:39Government, owners of solar energy. It has been
00:06:42four years, and so far, the electricity company has not
00:06:45committed. Dr. Ibrahim Shashou, the Mufti of Aleppo, intervened to solve this
00:06:49problem, and yet the company did not commit.
00:06:52So, they entrusted us with the recommendation. They said, "The Minister should form a committee
00:06:55and it should
00:06:59problem for us. May God bless you." The second question. As for
00:07:03the second question, it's not allowed, colleague. No. This came to me late, Doctor.
00:07:06The time. The complaint. I had several
00:07:09questions, so I deleted them, and I only have one question left, professor. Colleagues,
00:07:22I wish, I wish, I wish you would stick
00:07:26to it. Okay, the main question is about the area around the Euphrates
00:07:29River. There are dozens of villages that are not irrigated,
00:07:33neither for drinking nor for irrigation.
00:07:36neighborhoods do not receive water. May God bless
00:07:38you.
00:07:43Colleague Lara, please.
00:07:46Mr. President, Minister,
00:07:49Members of Parliament, in light of the urgent
00:07:52need to expand alternative energy projects,
00:07:55what is the Ministry's plan to provide administrative
00:07:58procedural facilities for investors in solar
00:08:02farms, especially in determining the price of kilowatt-hour?
00:08:05Thank you. Colleague Muhammad Basel.
00:08:09Some questions, colleagues, I
00:08:12saw them answered in the presentation. So, repeating them is a
00:08:16kind of repetition. Mr.
00:08:19President, His Excellency
00:08:22the Minister, fellow
00:08:24colleagues,
00:08:26I will not speak emotionally or populistically,
00:08:30but I will convey a reality.
00:08:33One of the most important tasks of members of parliament is to
00:08:36be a bridge between the people
00:08:39and the council, and between the people and this esteemed
00:08:42government. There is a lot
00:08:45of suffering among citizens regarding the price
00:08:48of electricity. A recommendation
00:08:50from His Excellency the President
00:08:53to reconsider suspending
00:08:56the decision to raise the price
00:09:00of electricity.
00:09:02decision, honestly, for vulnerable
00:09:06groups, is a disaster.
00:09:09They are suffering and crying.
00:09:12I conducted a survey in two areas
00:09:15of Damascus neighborhoods. 60% of those
00:09:18I asked did not pay their bills, even though
00:09:22His Excellency the Minister said that 70% in Damascus had
00:09:25paid. But the reality is that among vulnerable groups, there is no
00:09:29payment. Therefore, kindly, this
00:09:32recommendation, kindly, that it be suspended until the income
00:09:36of the Syrian citizen increases, and they can afford to pay,
00:09:39and they are supportive of the government and supportive of the state.
00:09:4320% of those who are listening to you now, Mr. Minister,
00:09:46what you said from the Syrian
00:09:50people, happy with merchants and industrialists,
00:09:53and excellent words, and we are with them in terms of budget
00:09:56and accounts
00:09:58and outcomes. But the vulnerable group does not look at that.
00:10:02They look at their income being a million, and their electricity
00:10:05bill is a million or one and a half million. How
00:10:08do they live?
00:10:11decision. The second point,
00:10:14this is a recommendation, but the question is, no, these are all
00:10:18recommendations. Let's go back to the question. The question is, these are all
00:10:22recommendations. You either recommend or ask. Damascus has a
00:10:25lifeline. The Barada River is the lifeline of Greater
00:10:28Damascus with its two Ghoutas.
00:10:31It complains about the defunct regime. The defunct regime
00:10:34caused two disasters to the Barada River, my brothers. First,
00:10:38it put sewage into this river, and this
00:10:41is a disaster. It built concrete
00:10:44to this river. And the second
00:10:48disaster is that there was a contract
00:10:51signed between the defunct government and a neighboring
00:10:56country to approve the source of Barada,
00:10:59which is the lifeline of
00:11:02the Minister to review this issue
00:11:04so that our waters may return to us,
00:11:07rather than becoming a dry Barada valley,
00:11:11a barren desert. We want it to remain
00:11:14green for us and for the two Ghoutas, God willing.
00:11:17And thank you. Colleague Salem Muhammad
00:11:21Al-Ahmada.
00:11:36The regime is like that. Come on, colleague. Thank you, Mr.
00:11:39President. Mr. Minister, in this
00:11:43difficult transitional stage, how
00:11:46will you ensure that the energy sector bears the cost
00:11:49of recovery and reform without the burden
00:11:53shifting largely to the citizen? We want a clear plan from the Ministry.
00:11:57What will change during the year
00:12:00and not just what we hope will change?
00:12:03I propose a publicly announced transitional energy
00:12:07plan with specific goals
00:12:11and timelines, and a balance between ensuring energy
00:12:14and reducing its cost for citizens, and rehabilitating
00:12:17local production. Thank you, Mr. Minister. Thank you, colleague.
00:12:20Mr. Minister, can you answer the previous five questions?
00:12:26Also, the repeated things, I think there's no
00:12:29need for them. Thank you.
00:12:32First, regarding the issue of agricultural
00:12:34support,
00:12:37the matter is not only concerned with the Ministry of Energy, so that we do not take on more
00:12:40than we can handle. We are part of this government.
00:12:44So, agricultural support,
00:12:48bread support, industrial
00:12:51support, support for all sectors that involve energy.
00:12:54So, there is
00:12:57segments of society, the principle
00:13:00is that it should be a comprehensive plan, in which we
00:13:04are a part. And this is what the Supreme Council for Economic Development is working on.
00:13:07We are part of it. We play
00:13:10our role. If for example, we support the energy
00:13:13sector, industry, by providing fuel at
00:13:17$400 instead of its price of $570 and $600.
00:13:21We are supporting it, and the same applies to agriculture. But it needs a well-structured plan, because
00:13:24if we go towards support, and I haven't seen Syria, from the beginning,
00:13:28under its leadership, took a path
00:13:32that services in
00:13:35the socialist economic system to the free market
00:13:39and market economy. So, this transition
00:13:42will surely lead us to some
00:13:46one day. It might be a transitional stage.
00:13:50This issue, if we give diesel, and this was the reality
00:13:53in the past period, we were supporting bakeries with bread, diesel
00:13:57at a reduced price. It became
00:13:59difficult to control from the Ministry of Trade or the Ministry of Economy to the point
00:14:05was being smuggled. They would take it and not bake with it. They would sell it in the market.
00:14:09This became an issue that needed control, and controlling it was difficult. So, they went in the direction of
00:14:12no, take the diesel at its current price and support flour. Let
00:14:16your support be in flour. It's an easier issue for them to monitor.
00:14:19As for the solar energy issue in
00:14:23Idlib, I will follow up, God willing, with the company, and solar
00:14:27energy projects in the Euphrates region, also irrigation
00:14:30and water projects in the Euphrates region, God willing, part
00:14:34of it is on the investment plans during
00:14:372027. Renewable energy. I mentioned
00:14:40earlier that we signed contracts for 2500
00:14:43megawatts of solar energy and approximately 1500 megawatts of wind energy.
00:14:47So, we have achieved self-sufficiency in terms of renewable energy as a percentage of the total
00:14:51generation and energy mix that we concluded
00:14:54through the partnerships we established. The price
00:14:57of electricity, we discussed it at length
00:15:03issue can be supported or suspended, but with
00:15:06the service deteriorating significantly, I mean, how can we support it? If
00:15:10we want to support electricity from the Ministry
00:15:13amount to buy gas, the service will continue. It supports electricity. It didn't give
00:15:17me, and the Ministry of Finance didn't
00:15:21for the price of the gas I want to buy. So, I cannot generate
00:15:25the same. So, I stop buying, and the service declines. So, it's an equation. This equation
00:15:28and its study, I mean, it really needs what we talked about, because it will not
00:15:33people by reducing their electricity service. It will
00:15:37affect industry and development in general. Right.
00:15:40That's why we chose a vulnerable segment. We are saying their bill is
00:15:44$6.5. The bill for those who consume 150 kilowatts,
00:15:47the vulnerable segments, is $6.5 per
00:15:49month.
00:15:53Okay, the Barada River. I mentioned earlier the national
00:15:56carrier, which is one of the most important of our goals
00:16:02national carrier is not to
00:16:04existing springs. In Fiji and others,
00:16:08which is to restore the Barada River to what it was, because
00:16:11today, as long as everything is being withdrawn, no one is taking from it outside Syria. Everything is being withdrawn. It is
00:16:16Fiji and from the Barada spring. All of it is not enough
00:16:19for drinking water for Damascus governorate and rural
00:16:22Damascus. The issue of improving
00:16:25energy and us bearing a part of it is included in
00:16:29the presentation that was given, that we are basically
00:16:33bearing a part. We mentioned figures and percentages for electricity and energy.
00:16:37We are bearing a large part of it,
00:16:40which are subsidized categories,
00:16:43whether in electricity or in supporting diesel
00:16:46and fuel for industry. Mr. Minister, your costs are very
00:16:49high. Your costs are 12 years.
00:16:52Colleague.
00:16:59Colleague Rami Shaher
00:17:01Al-Saleh.
00:17:06In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Mr. President,
00:17:10Mr. Minister, esteemed colleagues
00:17:13and representatives,
00:17:16all issues have become clear and presented.
00:17:19All that remains is work
00:17:22and implementation. I propose an operations
00:17:25room in Deir ez-Zor to look at what is around
00:17:28it and what is upon it. The Euphrates
00:17:32River, which poets used to sing about, has become
00:17:35repulsive even to the eloquent.
00:17:38Al-Furati, the poet, says: That is the Euphrates
00:17:42River, love the poem from the glory of eternity,
00:17:45a unique, smiling life from a
00:17:49flowing spring, whenever I tasted it, I asked
00:17:52for more. Now, every time I taste it, I ask
00:17:55for a doctor.
00:17:59tragic. Then the Khabur River. When we say
00:18:02the Khabur River, I am talking about an area from
00:18:06the mouth of the Khabur River, the Euphrates, to the city
00:18:09of Hasaka. 220
00:18:13kilometers, house after house, and the villages are dense.
00:18:16For 45 years, it has been suffering
00:18:19from drought. I mean, when we talk about water stations and purification,
00:18:23it basically has no water.
00:18:26No one can save the region and save the Euphrates
00:18:29and Khabur Rivers except by diverting water from the Tigris
00:18:32River. This will save the region and revive it,
00:18:35and support the waters of the Euphrates River.
00:18:37Now, water and disease.
00:18:41All of it. Oil
00:18:44and water. The oil spill
00:18:48that goes into the wadi is only meters away from flowing
00:18:52into the Euphrates River from the side of Jabal Al-Taym. There
00:18:55must be an operations room, and the efforts of the government,
00:18:58the people, and the People's Council must be combined.
00:19:01People are complaining to us on the street. Mr. Minister, you have to have mercy
00:19:04on us. They are saying, "What have you done for five hours?"
00:19:08We tell them, "The blessing
00:19:11is with the Minister, God willing." We promised
00:19:14on matters. The Khabur, Mr.
00:19:18President, knows the situation.
00:19:21All of it in the Golan, and in Suweida, and in Daraa.
00:19:25Work. Work is honorable,
00:19:28but the Khabur has been dry for 50 years. For 50
00:19:32years, there has been no agriculture. Sometimes there is
00:19:34some rainwater and so on. So, when
00:19:37the Tigris River achieves national
00:19:41unity between Al-Jazeera and the land
00:19:44between the two rivers, the Tigris
00:19:47was originally part of Syria, and the British
00:19:51cut it off there. Therefore, we want an operations
00:19:54room and strong and decisive action in this
00:19:57region to save it.
00:19:59Diseases from oil residues or from
00:20:03foul drinking water
00:20:05and sewage and so on. Thank you
00:20:10lengthy speech. Colleagues, I have
00:20:1287 interventions, so you should be aware of that.
00:20:16So, I hope, I hope,
00:20:19and I wish that whoever speaks will get straight to the question
00:20:22and save us time, us and his colleagues.
00:20:26I mean, get to the point. I mean, the time is
00:20:29one minute, no more. One minute, and then I will cut off
00:20:32the speaker. It is the responsibility of the speaker
00:20:36to shorten his time to one minute. I mean, 87 interventions, we need
00:20:40to organize. Colleague Hanan Balkhi.
00:20:42Thank you, Mr. President. Mr.
00:20:45Minister, regarding subsidized fuels, and since
00:20:49actual support is measured
00:20:53the material at the subsidized price, what is the mechanism
00:20:57that guarantees the identification of the beneficiary, the fairness
00:21:00of quantities, the transparency of distribution, and the prevention of leakage
00:21:03to the black market?
00:21:05Thank you.
00:21:08Colleague Arif Razzouk.
00:21:12Mr. Minister,
00:21:15regarding the issue of mutual consent contracts, I understand that these
00:21:19contracts are a tactical solution or a firefighting
00:21:22measure. When we say that transformers get damaged,
00:21:26we are forced, in order to avoid power outages, to buy with mutual consent contracts. This
00:21:29is firefighting. Why don't we have a strategic plan and an assessment
00:21:33of needs, so that there are deals to buy,
00:21:36and when a transformer is damaged, it is replaced immediately? Given that we
00:21:40are a legislative authority and you are an executive authority, in the same
00:21:43boat, we ask, on behalf of my colleagues, to raise the first
00:21:47electricity consumption bracket to 250 kilowatt-hours. The meter
00:21:51should take readings regularly, because delaying regular readings leads
00:21:54to price increases. Thank you, colleague Yasser Mahmoud
00:21:58Al-Shahadi. Yes, Mr. President, Mr.
00:22:01Minister, the first question.
00:22:05So, viewers, this was a session of the People's
00:22:08Assembly that was allocated today for accountability and questioning, as well as
00:22:12the Minister of Energy, Muhammad Al-Bashir. The
00:22:16statements about the crisis of petroleum derivatives in the country, as well as
00:22:20the consequences and obstacles that stand in the way
00:22:24of oil production in the country, and that the Ministry of Energy faces.
00:22:27Most notably, dear viewers, we remind
00:22:31you again that the Minister of Energy said that
00:22:37crude oil amounts to 2.5 billion barrels,
00:22:40and that they have 78
00:22:44oil fields and 28 gas
00:22:46fields. The Minister of Energy also added in this session,
00:22:50the accountability session, that
00:22:54oil currently amounts to about
00:22:571000
00:22:59barrels per day. For more details about these
00:23:02statements and these answers that the Minister
00:23:06of Energy, Muhammad Al-Bashir, gave in the
00:23:09hearing session that took
00:23:12place today in the People's Assembly, our correspondent
00:23:16Abbad capital, Damascus. Abada,
00:23:20joins us directly from the People's Assembly in the Syrian welcome. Let's recall with
00:23:22you, Abada, what was new in the statements of the Minister of Energy
00:23:26during this session, the accountability
00:23:28session, about the crisis of petroleum derivatives and what
00:23:32were the reasons that forced the Ministry of Energy to raise the prices
00:23:37country.
00:23:42Yes, Amena, good evening. Indeed, a long and extensive session had
00:23:45started at 12 noon today and is still ongoing
00:23:49at this moment. Of course, in this session, the Syrian Minister of Energy,
00:23:52Muhammad Al-Bashir, provided
00:23:56inquiries and clarifications about the recent crisis that
00:23:59Syria is experiencing, the fuel crisis. This crisis,
00:24:02which began with raising the prices of petroleum derivatives in Syria, specifically,
00:24:06the basic materials that the Syrian people fully
00:24:10depend on. Of course, the increase, according to the Syrian Minister
00:24:13of Energy, was actually due to the global increase in the first place, and also
00:24:17due to the inability of the Syrian government to secure the full
00:24:20reserve of these fuels. Of course,
00:24:24in conjunction with this matter, there was also a discussion
00:24:27about the full situation of the reserve,
00:24:30Syria's oil reserve, gas reserve,
00:24:33and also the need that,
00:24:36today, Syria fully needs.
00:24:39Of course, Amena, the People's Assembly session today had
00:24:43been divided into two parts. The first part, in fact, was completely
00:24:46dedicated, and it lasted for about two hours, to discussing
00:24:50the situation of petroleum derivatives,
00:24:53the need for these derivatives. And there were
00:24:56about 40 questions that were directed by members
00:24:59of the Syrian People's Assembly to the Syrian Minister of Energy, who
00:25:03answered almost all of these questions,
00:25:06and he actually answered the inquiries that were submitted
00:25:10by the deputies. There were also inquiries about the next stage
00:25:13in which the Syrian government and the Ministry of Oil, the Ministry
00:25:17of Syrian Energy, will allocate
00:25:20three categories for diesel. Some of these categories will be allocated
00:25:24to families for heating, and there will also be a category
00:25:27allocated for heavy machinery, in addition to the main
00:25:30category that is used for, I mean, transportation
00:25:33and cars completely. Of course, there was also
00:25:36a statement from the Syrian Minister of Energy about electricity. There
00:25:40was a whole section actually in his intervention today
00:25:44about electricity and also other matters related to the Ministry
00:25:47of Energy. Of course, the session is still ongoing, actually, and through it,
00:25:51the Minister of Energy is actually providing explanations
00:25:54and answers to all the questions that
00:25:57were submitted inside the parliament. Abada,
00:26:00we will follow up on it during the upcoming news hours, God willing,
00:26:04and at the top of the hour, we will also be with
00:26:07the viewers to complete the details of this session. Colleague
00:26:11Furat Al-Daroubi, thank you very much, Abada. You were with us
00:26:14live from the People's Palace in Damascus, our correspondent Abada
00:26:18Mansour, regarding the details of this session, the accountability
00:26:22session that the People's Assembly approved today
00:26:25to hold and question
00:26:28the Minister of Energy, Muhammad Al-Bashir, about the fuel
00:26:31crisis in the country and the increase in its prices
00:26:34as well. So, viewers, we conclude this
00:26:38hour. We will meet you at the top of the hour to follow up on the details of this session
00:26:41and its specifics. Colleague Furat Al-Daroubi. May you be safe.
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