
The future head of Syria Bashar Assad made the first political statement. Accepting the delegation of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, he said that Syria will firmly adhere to its national course aimed at protecting the Arab peoples up to the complete liberation of all the occupied Arab territories and the restoration of the legal rights of the Arabs.
Despite the fact that the first statement of the new Syrian leader sounds tough, the West expects that Bashar al -Assad will be a more accommodating leader than his father Hafes, who ruled Syria for 30 years.