PRESIDENT BASHAR ALASSAD OF SYRIA DESCRIBED HIS RELATION WITH THE CUSTODIAN OF THE TWO HOLY MOSQUES KING ABDULLAH BIN ABDULAZIZ AS A FAMILY-MEMBER AND FRATERNAL RELATION THAT IS CHARACTERIZED BY OPENNESS AND TRANSPARENCY. "FOLLOWING THE SAD DEMISE OF LATE PRESIDENT HAFEZ ALASSAD, KING ABDULLAH BIN ABDULAZIZ DIRECTLY EXTENDED HIS SUPPORT FOR ME IN THOSE CRITICAL MOMENTS, A STAND ALL SYRIANS WERE AWARE OF", BASHAR ALASAD SAID, ADDING THAT KING ABDULLAH BIN ABDULAZIZ SINCERITY TO AND SUPPORT FOR LATE PRESIDENT ASSAD AND SYRIA WERE WELL KNOWN BY THE ARAB COUNTRIES DURING THE FIERCE ATTACK SYRIA WAS FACING. IN AN INTERVIEW WITH THE SAUDI NEWSPAPER OF AL-JAZEERAH (PENINSULA), PUBLISHED IN RIYADH TODAY, ASSAD SAID THE TIES BINDING THE KINGDOM WITH SYRIA WERE HISTORICAL AND THAT THE ROLE OF THE TWO COUNTRIES, IN ADDITION TO EGYPT, IN THE ARAB POLITICAL DYNAMICS IS PIVOTAL. --MORE
