{"id":6656,"date":"2013-07-10T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/?p=6656"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:18:09","slug":"ribal-al-assad-takes-part-in-panel-discussion-at-faes-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/ribal-al-assad-takes-part-in-panel-discussion-at-faes-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribal Al-Assad takes part in panel discussion at FAES Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week Ribal Al-Assad, Director of the ODFS spoke at the prestigious FAES Foundation (Fundacion para el An\u00e1lisis y los Estudios Sociales\/Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies), a leading think tank committed to nurturing the political ideas and activities of the liberal and reformist centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FAES seeks to reinforce the values of freedom, democracy and Western humanism. Its aim is to create, promote and disseminate ideas based on political, intellectual and economic freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ribal was invited by the President of the Foundation, Spain’s former Prime Minister, the Rt. Honourable Jose Maria Aznar, to speak on the topic of Syria and regional issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who also attended this year include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Rt. Honourable Mariano Rajoy, the Prime Minister of Spain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Felipe Calderon, Former President of Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Minister of Defence the Hon. Pedro Morenes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Luis de Guindos : Minister of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Jose Manuel Soria: Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Jose Ignacio Wert: Minister of Education, Culture and Sports<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Maria Dolores de Cospedal, the Secretary General of the Partido Popular (PP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The Hon. Ana Palacio, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Member of the Spanish Council of State<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Lord Hugh Thomas of Swynnerton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Agustin Conde, MP for Toledo, President of the Committee for the Defence of the Congress of Deputies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Esteban Gonzalez Pons, MP for Valencia and Vice-Secretary of Studies and Programs, Partido Popular (PP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Cayetena Alvarez, MP for Madrid, and director for the International Department, FAES Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Miguel Angel Cortes, MP for Valladolid, Member of the Board of Trustees, FAES Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Javier Ruperez, Former Spanish Ambassador to the United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Jose Ignacio Salafranca, MEP, President of the Arab Spring monitoring Group in the EU Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This week Ribal Al-Assad, Director of the ODFS spoke at the prestigious FAES Foundation (Fundacion para el An\u00e1lisis y los Estudios Sociales\/Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies), a leading think tank committed to nurturing the political ideas and activities of the liberal and reformist centre. FAES seeks to reinforce the values of freedom, democracy and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches","category-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6681,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions\/6681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}