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SECRETARY-GENERAL PROFOUNDLY SADDENED BY DEATH OF SYRIAN PRESIDENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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\t<\/span>The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Secretary-General is profoundly saddened by the sudden death of President Hafez Al-Assad of Syria.  The passing of President Assad is a great loss for the people of the Syrian Arab Republic, the Arab world and the region as a whole.  The Secretary-General sends his heartfelt condolences to the family of President Assad and to the people of Syria.<\/p><\/div>\n

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On this sad occasion, the Secretary-General wishes to pay warm tribute to President Assad.  He will be remembered as a statesman of great authority and as a person of firm and consistent principle, who led his country over decades through a period of much change and turbulence in the area.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In the Secretary-General's view, the death of President Assad underlines the urgency of the search for a comprehensive and lasting solution to the problems of the region.<\/p><\/div>\n

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SECRETARY-GENERAL PROFOUNDLY SADDENED BY DEATH OF SYRIAN PRESIDENT The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is profoundly saddened by the sudden death of President Hafez Al-Assad of Syria.  The passing of President Assad is a great loss for the people of the Syrian Arab Republic, the Arab world […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[2241],"document-category":[1329,3205,1338],"document-source":[5352,1897],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1813,1905],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-213069","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-syria","document-category-press-release","document-category-secretary-general-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-subject-middle-east-situation","document-subject-peace-proposals-and-efforts","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/213069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/213069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=213069"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=213069"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=213069"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=213069"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=213069"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=213069"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=213069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}