President al-Assad names Mr. Fayssal Mikdad as vice president

Damascus, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad issued Monday a decree naming Mr. Fayssal Mikdad as vice President.

Based on the decree, Mikdad is authorized to follow up on the implementation foreign and media policy in the framework of the President’s directives.

Mikdad served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates since 2020.

Mikdad was born in Ghasm village in Daraa province in 1954. He graduated from Damascus University in English Literature in 1978, He also got a doctorate in English literature from Charles University in Prague in1992.

Mikdad worked in the diplomatic corps in 1994 at Ministry of Foreign Affairs then joined the permanent delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic in 1995 at the UN, and he worked with various UN committees and represented Syria at several international conferences and was appointed as deputy permanent envoy and representative for Syria at the Security Council.

He chaired several UN Security Council sessions and also served as vice Chairman of the UN General Assembly and chaired a number of its meetings.

He was appointed as ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic and permanent representative to the UN in 2003.

He was appointed as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2006, and head of the National Committee for the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention in Syria.

Shaza Qreima