Veteran Syrian diplomat Mekdad named foreign minister, state media says ...Egypt

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AMMAN (Reuters) – Syria’s President Bashar al Assad named veteran diplomat Faisal Mekdad as foreign minister on Sunday to replace Walid Moalem, who died last week, state media reported. Mekdad, 66, had been deputy foreign minister since 2006. He has also held a string of diplomatic posts, including envoy to the United Nations. Assad also appointed Bashar al-Jaafari, currently ambassador to the UN, as deputy foreign minister. Mekdad, like Moalem, is a staunch defender of Assad’s bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters in 2011, when thousands took to the streets calling for an end to the Assad family’s decades-old authoritarian rule that later erupted into a full-scale civil war. Moalem die

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