Damascus-SANA
Today, the People's Assembly held its twenty-first session of the sixth regular session of the third legislative session, headed by Hammouda Sabbagh, Speaker of the Assembly.
In his speech before the Council on the occasion of the forty-eighth anniversary of the founding leader Hafez al-Assad raising the Syrian Arab flag in the liberated sky of Quneitra, Sabbagh stressed that this anniversary glorifies an immortal day in the life of the Syrian people, indicating that restoring the usurped Syrian rights requires everyone to continue to exert effort, diligent work and thought. continuing to achieve this ultimate goal.
The President of the Council explained that the liberation of all Syrian lands from the hands of the Zionists and terrorist mercenaries also requires mobilizing all that requires energies and capabilities and employing them in the service of the Syrian people, stressing that Syria, the people, the army, and the leadership are moving forward in the honorable and heroic march of liberation until the final victory is achieved.
In their interventions, a number of council members affirmed that raising the Syrian Arab flag in the sky of Quneitra, liberated from the clutches of the Israeli enemy, was the culmination of the heroism of the Syrian Arab Army, the sacrifices of the righteous martyrs, and the gifts of the Syrian people in the October liberation war, stressing Syria’s firm and legitimate right to restore the fully and undiminished occupied Syrian Golan. .
The Council also approved the draft law that includes amending some articles of Law No. 2 of 2009 on tourist work sites and it became a law, after the Council conducted a public debate on the project and listened to the report of the joint committee composed of the Committees for Services and Constitutional and Legislative Affairs on this project.
In a presentation he presented to the council, Interior Minister Major General Muhammad al-Rahmoun confirmed that the ministry had issued a number of circulars regarding manipulation of the national currency exchange rate, including coordination with the Central Bank of Syria officer to control the perpetrators of these crimes, observing formal and objective controls in organizing seizures and working to prove crimes with evidence and presumptions.
Minister Al-Rahmoun confirmed that the implementation of the project to issue electronic passports with approved international standards has been started, and the percentage of completion to date has reached 50 percent, and work is underway to launch it at the beginning of next year and apply it in four governorates, indicating that the number of passports issued by the Immigration and Passports Department and its branches until the 25th of this month It reached 66,601 passports.
Minister Al-Rahmoun indicated that the ministry is seeking to obtain cameras that work with night vision, while the traffic branches have been linked to the central management program, and it has become possible to pay the violations from any branch regardless of the location of the violation and the vehicle’s ownership. The public market and the privacy granted since the beginning of the year until the end of last May amounted to more than 127 thousand leave.
He stressed that the first phase of the electronic link with the Ministry of Transport to speed up the provision of services to citizens has been completed, and it has been linked with the Syrian Company for Electronic Payments to pay the fines resulting from traffic violations that do not require deduction of points, indicating that the ministry is following up on the implementation of its projects, including prison headquarters and units of the Internal Security Forces and the creation of registry centers Civilians in densely populated areas and linking all border posts with the central database.
In their interventions, a number of council members stressed the need to increase compensation, the nature of work, and incentives for members and non-commissioned officers of the Internal Security Forces, and to explain the reasons for confiscating unlicensed motorcycles, especially in the countryside, to allow their demarcation, to increase the number of police units and to provide them with sufficient mechanisms and elements, and to form committees in cooperation with the mayors and neighborhood committees to protect them from the phenomenon Recent thefts.
He called on the members to reduce the duration of obtaining a passport, re-evaluating the electronic platform to reserve the role through it, studying the possibility of obtaining a passport allowance for the expatriate through Syrian embassies, establishing immigration and passport centers in the liberated areas, and clarifying the nature of the electronic passport that the ministry seeks to adopt, stressing the importance of prosecuting the operators of offensive websites. .
Some members demanded to stop research radios whose legal period has expired, to treat malicious cases related to those outside the country, to amend some articles of the Traffic Law that govern the imprisonment of the traffic offender, to be strict in pursuing drug and beggary crimes, and to amend the legal legislation with regard to the crime of stealing electricity and communications cables to become a felony that requires the largest punishment and treatment. Unrestricted topic.
A number of members pointed to the importance of the presence of lawyers in the police stations alongside their clients and activating the networking between traffic branches and insurance companies to obtain clearance in an easy way and raising the retirement age for workers in the Internal Security Forces, stressing the need to be strict in prosecuting the perpetrators of kidnapping, murder and looting of wealth in the governorates of Daraa and As-Suwayda. .
In his response to the interventions, the Minister of Interior pointed out that work is underway to address the shortage in mechanisms and police units, and work is being done on the incentive system for workers in the ministry. Search radios and notifications.
Major General Al-Rahmoun confirmed that a few days ago, in cooperation and coordination between the Ministry and the competent authorities, large quantities of narcotics “Captagon pills” were seized in the port of Lattakia.
Minister Al-Rahmoun indicated that allowing the expatriate to pay for the passport abroad and obtain it inside Syria needs to be studied in cooperation with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates and Finance, and there will be no interruption in the issuance of passports, indicating that the electronic passport is an electronic chip that contains the citizen’s data in the same form and number pages.
The Minister of Interior explained that the people of Raqqa and Idlib can obtain a passport from any branch of immigration and passports, and there is a committee formed by the Ministries of Justice and Interior and other parties to study the registration of those whose registrations have been closed and those whose restrictions have been suspended. All searches for binary names in the ministry's databases have been cancelled.
The session was attended by the Dean and students of the Faculty of International Relations and Diplomacy at Al-Sham Private University and students of the Higher Institute for Population Studies and Research, where the President of the Council stressed the importance of informing the students of the Council’s work mechanism and its follow-up to its tasks, responsibilities, legislative role and oversight, expressing his hope for the students to achieve a bright future and to contribute with the rest of the countrymen in The process of reconstruction and reconstruction in Syria.
The session, which was attended by the Minister of Tourism, Mohamed Rami Martini, and the Minister of State for People's Assembly Affairs, Abdullah Abdullah, was adjourned to 11 am tomorrow, Wednesday.
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