Syrian Arab Republic
Minister Farouk Al-Shara
Syria currently holds a temporary seat on the UN Security Council. Among Middle Eastern nations, it has been one of the most outspoken critics of U.S. policy in Iraq. Farouk Al-Shara is Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister for Syria. The following is excerpted from Minister Al-Shara’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 29, 2003. It gives me pleasure to express to the Secretary General of the United Nations and to his assistants our sincere appreciation for the effort they have made, the hardships they have endured to preserve the status of this organization, and for not…
