{"id":7235,"date":"2011-07-01T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/?p=7235"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:31:53","slug":"brussels-ribal-al-assad-discusses-democratic-reform-in-syria-with-member-of-eu-parliaments-iran-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/brussels-ribal-al-assad-discusses-democratic-reform-in-syria-with-member-of-eu-parliaments-iran-delegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels: Ribal Al-Assad discusses democratic reform in Syria with member of EU Parliament&#8217;s Iran Delegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ribal Al-Assad, Director of the ODFS, this week met with Mr Alexander Alvaro MEP, Member of the European Parliament&#8217;s Delegation for Relations with Iran. They had a comprehensive discussion about ending the repression in Syria and bringing peaceful democratic reform. The meeting was a part of a series of meetings that Ribal had with senior members of the European Parliament from across the political spectrum, senior policy advisers and officials from the European Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commentando l'incontro, Ribal ha detto:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was delighted and honoured to meet Mr Alvaro. I highlighted the dangers of extremism and sectarianism, which could lead to a civil war in Syria and a wider regional war. We had an excellent discussion about the role the EU can play in helping to end the repression in Syria and in supporting democratic development there. I welcome his and the EU&#8217;s support for the legitimate demands of the Syrian people for freedom and dignity. I look forward to working with Mr Alvaro and the EU to bring peaceful transitional democratic reform in Syria.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ribal Al-Assad, Director of the ODFS, this week met with Mr Alexander Alvaro MEP, Member of the European Parliament&#8217;s Delegation for Relations with Iran. They had a comprehensive discussion about ending the repression in Syria and bringing peaceful democratic reform. The meeting was a part of a series of meetings that Ribal had with senior [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetings-political-engagements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7236,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions\/7236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}