President Hafez Assad, June 1974, hoisting the Syrian Flag in the Liberated City of Qunaitra, the Capital of the Israeli Occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Under the Leadership of President Hafez Assad Syria was able to liberate about 20 percent of the Golan Heights occupied by Israel since June 1967 " Our destiny is to build a better future for our countries, a safe future (for) our children. We have to give them something better than what we inherited.’ and then there was a sudden silence," President Hafez Assad, June 1974, hoisting the Syrian Flag in the Liberated City of Qunaitra, the Capital of the Israeli Occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Under the Leadership of President Hafez Assad Syria was able to liberate about 20 percent of the Golan Heights occupied by Israel since June 1967

 

President Hafez Assad with his Cuban Counterpart Castro

President Hafez Assad with his Soviet Union Counterpart Brezhnev, 1982

Z A Bhutto and Hafez Al -Assad, January 1972

President Hafez Assad with His Counterpart, Mubarak, and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah

President Hafez Assad with President Sadat of Egypt and Libyan Leader Qadhafi, Damascus 1971

President Hafez Assad and King Hussein of Jordan, 1996

President Hafez Al Assad with King Abdullah of Jordan, 1999

President Hafez Assad with President Sadat of Egypt, President Numeiri of the Sudan and Libyan Leader Qadhafi

President Hafez Al Assad with the Saudi Crown Prince, Abdullah

During the visit, July 17, 1998, president Hafez Al-Assad said "Just and comprehensive peace is our goal and strategic choice for which we work to achieve. Just and comprehensive peace is in our interest and in the interest of the region, the matter which requires that all the world states in the east and west to exert their efforts to make the just and comprehensive peace succeed and to achieve it.”

President Hafez Al-Assad added "Peace will ensure for all big capabilities that double the efforts of development and spare a large quantity of human victims and calamities. We will always be with peace in its real meaning and we hope that all will head towards this human noble goal.”

President Hafez Assad with His Iranian Counterpart, Khatami

President Hafez Assad Receiving Hamas Movement Founder, Sheikh Yassin

President Clinton praised President Assad’s commitment to the path of peace. "We had our differences, but I always respected him," said Mr. Clinton, who last met Mr. Assad in March 26, 2000, in an attempt to break the deadlock in peace talks with Israel.

"Throughout my contacts with him, including our last meeting he made clear Syria’s continued commitment to the path of peace," Clinton said. "We look forward to working with Syria to achieve the goal of a comprehensive peace.

"While we had our disagreements, I always respected him because I felt that he was open and straightforward with me, and because I felt he meant it when he said he had made a strategic decision for peace," Clinton said.

President Hafez Assad Receiving US Secretray of State Kissinger

President Hafez Assad Receiving US Secretray of State Christopher

President Hafez Assad's last Summit with His Egyptian Counterpart, Mubarak, 2000

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