On this day in the year 2000: Bashar al-Assad’s inaugural speech before the Syrian People’s Assembly,
through which he became the President of the Syrian Arab Republic.

On this day in the year 2000: Bashar al-Assad’s inaugural speech before the Syrian People’s Assembly,
through which he became the President of the Syrian Arab Republic.
A civilian Syrian national political entity. Born out of the Syrian revolution. It has its own intellectual identity.