Walid Mohi Edine al Muallem was a Syrian diplomat and Ba’ath Party member. He served as Foreign Minister from 2006 to 2020 and as Deputy Prime Minister from 2012 to 2020. He was involved in Israeli-Syrian negotiations, both before and during his tenure as foreign minister.
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Walid Mohi Edine al Muallem was a Syrian diplomat and Ba’ath Party member. He served as Foreign Minister from 2006 to 2020 and as Deputy Prime Minister from 2012 to 2020. He was involved in Israeli-Syrian negotiations, both before and during his tenure as foreign minister. He called Western concerns over chemical weapons use \”a joke\” and a pretext for an Iraq War-like campaign. He denied the existence of the Shabiha, pro-government, paid militiamen alleged to have committed atrocities early on during the civil war. He blamed 60% of Syria’s violence on Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia with the United States exercising its influence over all others.
He accused a number of states of supporting terrorism and destabilizing Syria of deliberately attempting to destabilize Syria. In February 2016, after Saudi Arabia was planning to send its troops to Syria in order to fight against the Islamic State, Mualle warned that any foreign army soldiers who enter Syria without government consent would return home in wooden coffins. Following the September 2016 e-Zor air raid which killed up to 100 Syrian soldiers, he said that Syrian government was fully responsible because it was an intentional error.
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