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Nov 24 Central government

لجنة شؤون الأحزاب: نركز في دراسة طلبات الترخيص على النوعية وليس الكم والطلبات المقدمة متنوعة
Parties Affairs Committee: focus in the study of license applications on quality rather than quantity and variety of applications
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/11/24/383775.htm
November 24, 2011
Damascus, (SANA) -

Dr. Yasser Kelsa Secretary of the Political Parties Committee, the Committee took into account to facilitate the licensing procedures for those who wish to create a new party in Syria, select the law of parties, wait a minute to examine license applications cannot be neglected starts since the receipt of the request and even referred to the Committee for a period of 15 days may result in the event of lapse of this limit the recognition of the party, even if not completed conditions.

The Kelsa in an interview for television Syrian Arab yesterday evening that the establishment of a new party needs to / 50 / institutions represented by or acting on their behalf one or two people to follow the licensing procedures apply for incorporation as a form prepared by the Committee shall be referred by the Minister of the Interior to the Committee to study how it meets the conditions and required documents indicating that even today there are more than / 18 / representative of the parties have applied for licensing the establishment of parties in a variety of areas including political, social, environmental and other social development.

He noted Kelsa that it was not issued until today's date any approval to any of the parties applicant for a license and issued the approval of the publication in which you receive objections to each interested party on a particular topic in the license application may be directed to the founding or for violation of certain provisions of the Constitution.

Said Kelsa that there is much diversity in license applications submitted to the Committee of all the Syrian governorates and all these parties are in the process of completing the papers and during the coming period there will be more than one party in the deployment phase in preparation for approval noting that the law of parties was not subjected to the issue of possession of new parties and the media Information is not precluded by law to be the party's property practices in the context of media channels and radio stations.

On the structural organization of the parties said Kelsa we now have parties their internal completely different and all of them adopted the names or divisions are different from the other, explaining that this does not violate the law because how the mechanism of the organization of the party is an internal condition that is based on a democratic basis and conditions of the formation of the party to be declared in all affairs and the media can intervene and its affairs according to law.

The Kelsa that the committee members represented by Mr. Minister Chairman of the Committee are focusing on quality and study the rules of procedure at length and are studying each file separately more than once and accurately so that the selection of the founding members is subject to audit one by one to focus on quality rather than quantity.

For his part, Ali Melhem member of the Committee on Political Parties in Syria that the committee and the serious steps immediately renamed and has developed Regulations at its first meeting and updated in the second day, pointing out that the skepticism expressed by some about the Committee's work led to the reluctance of some people on the progress licenses to new parties .

Said Melhem assure everyone that our home is fine and the steps taken by the political leadership in Syria under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad in the way of reform will continue to the end and insisted that all the reforms are the speed and reliability required.

He Melhem The Commission has embarked on the study of applications in-depth study is very thought and quality we are now facing the same demands of democracy right about who is the practitioner and the priorities of this man and we are also in front of a step were new to our society and there was in the past pluralism within the framework of the National Front, but the law of parties organized in another and this new organization we deal with all dimensions of political awareness and we are required to pass any position which does not convince us because we want quality, not quantity.

For his part, Dr. Abdullah Al-Shahir professor of political science that the parties is now a case of democracy lays the foundations for a political base free, taking off from the national interest first, so it must be based parties on the general area of ​​the country and taking into account the completion of the organizational structure of the party, stressing that the goal is to have these parties in the future post political, economic and social effectiveness to contribute in building the Syrian society, providing for the construction of a modern state capable of political action and to act at the same time social and industrial and agricultural.

Shahir said the door is in Syria now is open to any political ideology frames the organization and structure of certain can be said that his party on a democratic basis and not on the basis of a political vision of personal, non-programmable and non-framed.

For his part, Ahmed Cosa representative of the founders of applicants for the Democratic Party of Syria said that after the issuance of the law of parties, we were the first to submit a request to found a party to the Committee on Political Parties in order to contribute in Syrian political life through the Law on Political Parties, which allowed us this opportunity to build a pluralistic political system established to build a state civilian democracy in which we can prevail in the values ​​of justice, equality, tolerance and dialogue without any form of discrimination among all the sons of the homeland.

Cossa said .. We were standing start events in Syria to the popular movement, but after that proved to us the dimensions of the plot and agendas of Foreign Affairs aimed at undermining Syria and its resistance and Arabism had to be to us to contribute to and participate in all political, social and popular to clarify the dimensions of this plot and this war on Syria, which were used which all types of weapons and dangerous, and after the media was showing us had to play the role of cultural awareness for our children at home and to clarify the dimensions of the plot and to address them and to stand by Syria against all that is being plotted.

Cossa said that the attitude of some Arab governments against Syria, explained to us the dimensions of the conspiracy all the parties and the more we have seen an escalation of their growing strength and solidity of our children in dealing with the conspiracy that has become clear to all Syrians.

For his part, said Imad al-Din al-Khatib representative of the founders of applicants for the Solidarity Party, we're off to a group years ago in the establishment of this party because it's been at different stages until the issuance of parties law, which was an urgent need for effective teamwork and joint and to involve the largest segment of society in political life.

Al-Khatib We as a party solidarity to our goal of strengthening the affiliation and loyalty of the citizen and its association with his country away from any personal benefit homeland is where the citizen can critique without seeing prisons he who does not take away the citizen's freedom and dignity, and we in Syria seek to promote national cohesion and explain the dimensions of the attack on us in the present time It is no secret that Syria has come under pressure in the past, many economic blockade and was able to and awareness of the unity of its people to overcome the crises of our people are still able to overcome any distress and pressure.


Hit by staggering economic crisis, Syria turns inward (Interview with Syria's Economy Minister)
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Middle-East/2011/Nov-24/155061-hit-by-staggering-economic-crisis-syria-turns-inward.ashx
November 24, 2011 01:58 PM (Last updated: November 24, 2011 02:05 PM)
By Sammy Ketz
Agence France Presse

DAMASCUS: Facing its worst economic crisis, syria is banking on boosting self-sufficiency to overcome sanctions, Economy Minister Muhammad Nidal al-Shaar told AFP in an exclusive interview Thursday.

"This is not an easy crisis. It's the worst in our recent history because it is immediately affecting the syrian citizen -- it's affecting the street, it's affecting factories, it's affecting the business community," Shaar said.

"It's affecting everyone and this is definitely not fair at all."

The United States and European Union have imposed strict economic sanctions on syria, where the United Nations estimates more than 3,500 people have been killed since March as the regime cracks down on a popular revolt.

Syria also failed to meet a Saturday deadline by the Arab League, which suspended Damascus' membership earlier this month, to end the bloodshed or face sanctions.

The Arab League is scheduled to meet Saturday to discuss economic measures against syria, a move that could sound the death knell for the country's economy which depends on its Arab neighbours for half of its exports and a quarter of its imports.

While the 54-year-old trade and economy minister is bracing for such a scenario, he doubts the potential sanctions will be implemented by all Arab states.

"If that is to happen, it will be very unfortunate because the damage will be to all sides," Shaar said.

"We don't expect all Arab countries to yield or participate in sanctions," he added. "In fact, we are almost certain that some Arab countries will not participate."

In a recent interview with Saudi economic daily Al-Iktisadiya, the Arab League's assistant secretary general for economic affairs Muhammad Twaijiri announced a string of measures likely to tighten the noose around syria's already reeling economy.

The measures include will bank transfers, freezing of assets and suspension of syria from the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA), according to Twaijiri.

But Lebanon was the first to announce it would not endorse any sanctions by the Arab League against syria, a statement the country's foreign minister made shortly before leaving for Cairo for the meeting Thursday.

But as sanctions close in on the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Shaar is adamant syria can look inwards for a way out.

"What we need today is to make ourselves more efficient in our self-sufficiency by distributing more efficiently our resources and factors of production, by better management of our trade and factories," he said.

"In summary... (to) return to inside syria."

The minister, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from the George Washington University, said the agriculture and food sectors, neglected in recent years, should be revived along with local factories that shut down a result of a free trade agreement with Turkey.

"It is very important to us today to have a labour plan, to get our employees back to work," Shaar said. "This is our job as a government, regardless of the crisis."

syria will not however return to the autarky of the 1980s, when the economy was ruled by the stringent policies of the socialist Baath Party.

"We are leaving the private sector, which accounts for 73 percent of our economy, to work with flexibility and to manage its own business," said Shaar.

Syria began a "spring" of economic liberalisation 10 years ago, allowing privatisation and foreign investment to begin to flow into the country.

Shaar, who built his career largely in syria's private sector, also remains optimistic on local currency, which has fallen from 50 syrian pounds to a dollar to 55 pounds to a dollar in the past month.

Exports however are expected to drop by 20 percent and imports by some 30 to 40 percent.

"The fact that imports have gone down more than exports is not bad, and the... devaluation of our local currency will be good for exportation," he said.

"If your imports are much higher than your exports then there is a problem, but this is not the case.

"So we are still safe."


مدير هيئة الاستثمار: المشاريع العربية القائمة لن تتأثر بالعقوبات العربية المتوقعة
Director of the investment Organisation: the onling Arab projects will not be affected by the expected Arab sanctions
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=515ec2ab311075ef98ecec976aac94b3&ar=284471982
Thursday - November 24 - 2011 - 10:07:08

Said the director of the investment "Ahmed Diab," The ongoing Arab projects will not be affected by the Arab economic sanctions expected to be taken, while the fall Alchmalat new Arab investments, according to the newspaper, the "revolution."

He explained, "Diab" that the Arab projects, which included since the beginning of the year continued and followed implementation according to their schedules, in light of the crisis, without any amendment, especially since the projects are located in Syria is not linked funds, Arab or organs of its states, but all belong to the investors and private capital.

The "Diab" that the investment until the end of the tenth month of this year, 15 projects at a cost of an Arab investment 18 billion Syrian pounds, distributed among the Egyptian investors and Iraqis and Bahrainis and Palestinians.

Ruled out, "Diab" damaged the atmosphere of local investment in the event of cessation of Arab investments, citing the nature of Arab investments that were not mostly to serve the vibrant economy of agriculture and industry, but I went mainly for the sectors of services, real estate, which does not achieve sustainable development that would harm the owners of capital and owners of investments such as projects the country has entered a speculative real estate, and contributed to raising the value of the property and land in the local market, which reflected negatively on the Syrians themselves as became the home ownership dream in recent years, with the energy projects promised by the Qataris did not come out of the intentions of the investment was not do on the ground.

He said, "Diab": "What distinguishes projects this year despite the low number of strategic projects as serious and as continues in spite of the events, circumstances, and media campaigns calling for the adoption of investment policies in light of the crisis more practical benefit from the comparative advantages for investment."

He said, "Diab" that there are two main off their body now in addressing the crisis, the first axis with work on the installation of domestic investment based on the strong support of existing projects and the removal of obstacles and simplify procedures, signing authority with unit resolution in the prime minister and the unity of "undp" and the Planning Commission on agreement to review the investment priorities, and to follow a more realistic approach in the face of challenges highlights the opportunities in this area, especially since investors at this stage must be assured to support fundamental reflected by a set of data mainly away from the bureaucracy and ease of access to the labor market.

"The theme is related to other work to hold the investment conference next month as an opportunity to recast the discussions with investors in light of actual conditions rather than reliance on the desires and wishes."

And the reliability of Lebanese investments and Iraqi alternative to Arab other in the long run, He said, "Diab" investments Lebanese and Iraqi shy and still without ambition and hope that there will be more investments in the coming period, and circumstances contributing to a climate is not suitable for investment, stressing the need to work to attract investors, the Syrians in the backdrop of the events bet now on the Syrian capital, which if we could bring in 10% of the wealth of the Syrian immigrant and estimated about 100 billion pounds we were fine.

He attributed the Arab investors dropped the pace of work in the Syrian market to the fear of the difficulty of obtaining funding, particularly that the sanctions will affect transactions Arab banking sector and money transfers, and that of the leading causes of disruption of the launch of new projects or disrupt the implementation as well as the psychological factor that plays is also a major role in delaying announcement of new projects.

And talked to local reports, the halting of three major Arab investment projects due to circumstances, which affected efforts to attract capital to support the economy.

He stressed, "Roger Sawaya" the President Center for Studies in Higher Council that the Lebanese Lebanese investments suffered losses since the start of real events.

And expected economic analyst Dr. "Abed Vdilah" that affected the sanctions Arab investment projects future declared or intend the cover with the future in two forms, either by delaying the implementation time of projects announced or postpone the announcement of new projects, and Altathren are serious since the obstruction of the investment projects that the private cause a loss great in the market and was represented by Arab funds, they hinder the service projects and infrastructure and this will reduce the investment in the real economy of any productive sectors such as industry and agriculture.


قرار للمالية يعدل دليل التسويات للمخالفات الجمركية
Decision to finance amending manual adjustments for customs violations
http://www.sana.sy/ara/4/2011/11/24/383960.htm
November 24, 2011
Damascus, (SANA) -

Ministry of Finance issued a decision to modify the included manual adjustments for customs violations as part of the Government's policy to enhance the performance and work in the light of the ongoing meetings with the economic activities and the chambers of industry and commerce to find appropriate solutions for all the difficulties and problems they suffer from.

The Minister of Finance Dr. Muhammad Aljalilati in a statement to SANA that this resolution is consistent with the Amnesty Law promulgated by Legislative Decree No. 72 of this year to promote the initiative for a settlement of the violations committed and benefit from the provisions of the amnesty law and the basis of the principle of transparency in the suppression of irregularities.

He said the finance minister said the amendment aims to reduce the commission of offenses and adjusted according to the description of each of them according to their reality and reduce the burdens and costs for offenses involving mistake or ignorance.

He said the amendment takes into account the adjustments to the legal minimum smuggling fines provided for in articles 277 and 278 of the Customs Act as required by Article 219 of it, noting that the amendment does not include the reduction of allowances settlement for violations of smuggling weapons, explosives and drugs.


رئيس مجلس الوزراء يصدر قرارا يتضمن اجراءات وأصول التعيين والتعاقد لدى الجهات العامة
Chairman of the Council of Ministers issued a resolution containing the procedures and the assets of recruitment, contracting with public bodies (reform of appointment in public entities)
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/11/24/383862.htm
November 24, 2011
Damascus, (SANA) -

Issued by Dr. Adel Safar, Chairman of the Council of Ministers decision on the adoption of procedures and includes the assets of recruitment and contracting in the public bodies as follows: (long regulation omitted)


مدير الشركة العامة للمخابز: رغيف الخبز على موائد السوريين تحت أي ظرف
Director of the Company for Bakeries: a loaf of bread on the table the Syrians, under any circumstances
http://www.sana.sy/ara/7/2011/11/24/383875.htm
November 24, 2011
Damascus, (SANA) -

The substance of the bread, seen the people in Syria through history as the blessing is sacred must be preserved of the key articles supported by the state where the cost manufacture of a kilogram of bread mature from a grain of wheat, 35 for the SP while it is sold to consumers in nine pounds and the price of bread 1400 grams and the hyphen for the consumer pounds 15 for a standard accredited to the bakery.

The Engineer Usman Hamid, the head of the company in a meeting with the tongue that every bakery has a self-sufficient means and the capabilities of the energy, electricity, water, flour, spare parts and vehicles for the distribution of bread in addition to the presence of management in each bakery recognizes the work plan to continue producing bread quality and quality the same under any circumstances pointing in this regard that despite the exposure of workers and employees in furnaces with a number of areas of the assault, kidnapping and theft of their cars by armed terrorist groups, the work will not be affected for the production and distribution of bread and secure for all citizens.

Hamid said that despite the difficulties faced by the work of the bakeries in some areas as a result of events over the past months, none of the bakeries did not stop working to secure the substance of bread to citizens and were closed many of the bakeries of the private sector were Bakeries Corporation is a haven for citizens to get a living pointing out The fabricated crisis, which affected the substance of bread a few months ago was to create some kind of confusion comes in the context of misinformation, led by some satellite channels within the framework of malicious conspiracy on Syria as a result of their positions in support of the resistance-and-outs of the policy of domination and foreign diktats.

Hamid explained that the need of bread Damascus about 2000 tons, valued at two million pounds, where the discharge end of the bread bakery and find a problem with the home and creating fears of loss of a loaf of bread and therefore has been taking a number of procedures and doubling the amount of bread and cover the needs of citizens.

Hamid said that the experience of the company's adoption of the plan enables bakeries to buy bread as a result of exceptional circumstances to the contrary nature dating back to 2006, is to provide the bakery a quantity of diesel is enough for a month and compensate all the consumption of flour with a surplus of twenty days and the existence of generators for electricity and that there is a problem sometimes in the delivery of material in the manufacture of basic yeast bread as occurs in some areas but we are keen on the production and delivery of a good loaf of Psoah to all citizens assured that he will not occur any problem regarding the provision of material as the bread bakeries working around the clock and even in the holidays.

The Director of General Company for bakeries that all the production lines of 238 on the readiness of the complete and fully functional have reached capacity for bakeries in October of this year 74 thousand tons, while 68 000 tonnes in the same month of 2010, up roughly 10 percent and this increase in loaf bread to meet the basic need of the citizens, in order to avoid any crisis in the areas that are still tense.

The mechanism works in the bakery of the company's 9480 workers spread over 13 branches in 130 bakeries that cover 40 percent of the needs of citizens and now risen to 65 percent after the bakery stopped the private sector in some areas.

The Hamid to some of the advantages gained by the bakery workers of the Labour Law of the medical care that includes clinical examination, analysis and radiology as are converted operations to public hospitals and get the workers to full compensation, but the roof overtime does not exceed 5 percent, which makes workers work the majority of the days of the month free of charge, especially as the majority of the fifth category.

The total production of the company according to the report of the production of the company during the first half of this year 441 thousand tons of bread and by the implementation of 137 percent, an increase of 4 percent from last year.

The deficit planned and approved by the Ministry of Finance and the State Planning Commission to 445 million Syrian pounds, where the deficit was reduced to 50 million pounds to become commercially 138 million after the addition of consumption.

The company has taken a number of actions to reduce the deficit by increasing the production and development and modernization of its lines and increase the rate of implementation, which led to a reduction in the cost of labor and reduce the consumption of fuel oil, maintenance, and the proportion of damaged industrial fleet and the replacement of old cars modern cars.

Was also reduced consumption of fuel oil of 67 liters per ton to 59 liters per ton of any amount of 25 million pounds and provided increased production labor-value of 113 million Syrian pounds in addition to the updated lines and staff training led to a tax increase by 4 percent and made a profit worth 161 million pounds Syria, where the total savings to increase the implementation and increase the tax rate and the pressure of spending 307 million has led to reducing the deficit of 445 million to 138 million note that an increase in wages for workers as of 01.04.2011 amounted to 35 million pounds in the wage bill in 2002 to 685 million pounds, reached in 2011 about 8.1 billion pounds was not to avoid these increases or offset, which is why the sign company in the fiscal deficit, said its director, where we must approve the actual cost to produce one ton of bread and approval of the deficit due to the sale of bread product at less than cost .


الترخيص لـ 2829 عاملاً أجنبياً للعمل في سورية في 2011
License for 2829 foreign workers to work in Syria in 2011
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=d428a57d59303cfa9e77361fa3882ba6&ar=27553353
Wednesday - November 23 - 2011 - 17:30:54

Said, "Rasha al-Harfoush" Director of Manpower in the Ministry of Social Affairs, the number of workers is the Syrians who obtained the approval of the Ministry to work arrived to 2829 workers since the beginning of 2011, divided competences between ordinary workers and are exempt from the requirement to competition, experts, specialists and self-employed persons (owners of facilities - investors - professionals, scientific), and they are of different nationalities, Arab and foreign countries and the majority of Lebanese, Jordanians and Iraqis.

According to the newspaper, "al-Thawrah", she noted, "al-Harfoush" that this number does not reflect reality, as most non-Syrian workers do not Arajonna to get the work permit.

She said, "al-Harfoush": "In the absence of the residency requirement does not prevent the approval of work permits for non-Syrian except in the case was an expert in a particular area, and to prove the lack of national experience similar to his experience, and are trained by the national working replaced."

"The al-Harfoush": "Article 11 of the identified decision No. 23 amended by resolution No. 1964 date 19.10.2011 ratio permitted to the employer for the operation of labor is Syria so as not to increase the proportion of workers from non-Syrians for 10% of the total workers, and not to increase wages and compensation for 30% of the total wages of workers, and not to increase the percentage of banks, insurance companies and capital companies and private mediation of 9% during the first two years to settle at a rate of 3% after five years provided that their competence and expertise is available to the Syrian labor. "

And necessitated the material (27-28-29) of the Labour Law No. 17 of 2010, every foreign or non-Syrian wants to work within the country to get a license from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour.

And issued the decision No. 23 of 2010 governing the work of non-Syrians, which included a set of conditions and not his rival, the basic condition of employment with the local jurisdiction and shall be exempt from this requirement non-Syrian resident for more than 15 years before entry into force of the decision.


الحكومة تنشر النسخة المعتمدة لتوصيات ملتقى الحوار الاقتصادي 2-2
The government published the approved version of the recommendations of Forum Economic Dialogue 2-2
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=acccafc44febab0686b717bf60d06e31&ar=694960947
Thursday - November 24 - 2011 - 9:11:41 (A long report of the Economic Dialogue with policy recommendations)


Safar Issues Decision on Forming Committee Tasked with Preparing National Plan on Combating Human Trafficking
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/11/24/383870.htm
Nov 24, 2011

DAMASCUS,(SANA)-Prime Minister, Dr. Adel Safar on Thursday issued a decision on forming a committee chaired by Director of Combating Human Trafficking Department at the Ministry of Interior.

The committee encompasses representatives of the ministries and the popular and civil organizations, and it is tasked with preparing a national plan for combating human trafficking.

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