Syria's President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public visit on Wednesday to an electrical plant in central Damascus to mark Labor Day, the presidency's official Facebook page said.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public visit on Wednesday
to an electrical plant in central Damascus to mark Labor Day, the presidency's
official Facebook page said.
"President Assad is now visiting the Umayyad electrical plant in
Tishreen
Garden
in
Damascus
and
congratulates its workers and
Syria
's
workers on their holiday," the Facebook page said.
It published a picture of the president addressing a crowd of workers, some of
them wearing or holding hard hats.
Assad, whose government is battling an uprising now in its third year, rarely
appears in public.
His last reported public visit was to an educational centre in the capital on
March 20, and he had not been seen publicly before that since January 24th,
when he attended prayers at a mosque in a northern district of Damascus.
Electricity production has fallen by nearly half since the beginning of the
conflict in
Syria
in
March 2011 because of insecurity on the country's roads has led to shortages of
the fuel that powers electricity plants.
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