The Syrian Minister of Information, Hamza al-Mustafa, said that Syrians have moved from the stage of marginalization and indifference they were facing in the halls of the United Nations, to a moment of dignity and pride forged by victory and the blood of the martyrs.
On Wednesday, Al-Mustafa said in a post on X that watching the Syrian president Ahmad al-Sharaa addressing the world represents the culmination of a “long path of sacrifices and a transformation from a feeling of humiliation to a rightful sense of honor and dignity”.
“In past years, before the victory, I used to visit the United Nations General Assembly during its annual meetings, along with other Syrian institutions and organizations. We would meet on the sidelines with some low-ranking officials, trying to convey to them the suffering of Syrians, the horror of the reality, and the impossibility of accepting the continued existence of the former regime,” he added.
But the minister said: “we often received cold and superficial responses, focused on the so-called political solution and the supposed inevitability of Assad’s victory, using condescending language that downplayed the suffering of victims and treated discussions of crimes and justice as overused phrases unfit for the ‘requirements of the stage.’ They would avoid us as if trying to evade a contagion.”
Al-Mustafa continued: “Today, between the marginalized images of the past and the scenes of this moment, there is a vast gap created by the liberators and the blood of Syrian martyrs: legitimacy, dignity, and parity that we were long denied the chance to experience.”
“Syrians have the right to rejoice and take pride in themselves as they see their president address the world with a brief speech full of significance,” he concluded.
