Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr. Faisal Mikdad stressed that the Syrian people directed, through the presidential elections, a clear message to the western countries that they will not surrender and will scarify their souls in defending their sovereignty and independence.

In an article published Saturday at the Lebanese al-Binaa newspaper under the title "The Syrian honest elections …the west\'s cheap propaganda" Mikdad pointed out that the Syrian people achieved further victories through electing their president amid tsunami waves of millions of people who rushed inside and outside Syria to the ballot boxes in a clear transparent democratic phenomena.