Al-Sahara at UN: Syria is regaining its rightful place among world nations

Syria's president, Ahmed Al-Sahara, on Wednesday delivered a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, the first time a president of this country has done so in nearly 60 years. While he was talking, hundreds of people gathered in front of giant screens in Syrian cities to hear the talk, waving Syrian flags.

After six decades of dictatorship, during which one million people were killed and hundreds of thousands more tortured, “Syria is regaining its rightful place among world nations” He said Al-Sahara before world leaders, news agency reports “.

Al-Sahara became the first Syrian head to speak in the United Nations since 1967, when Noureddine Attas had done the same shortly after the Arab-Israelian War, during which Syria had lost control of the Golan Plateau. Israel annexed that section in 1981.

The Syrian president criticised Israel in his speech, saying the neighbouring country did not prevent threats against Syria since Assad's fall, adding that Israeli policies “bien face the international community's support for Syria and its people” and jeopardise the region.

Furthermore, he called on Western states to lift Syria's sanctions from the Assad period “so that they are not the means to keep the Syrian people” in shackles.

Speaking to reporters outside the UN building after giving the speech, Al-Sahara said he hopes sanctions on his country will eventually be lifted.

<x0) He said Al-Sharra, expressing support for Palestinians in Gaza, where the war between Israel and Hamas is still continuing.

In Damascus, crowds of joyful people gathered in “Square Umayad” to celebrate the president's speech.