A Syrian view on current Middle Eastern conflict

Syria’s ambassador to Australia will discuss prospects for peace in the Middle East at a UQ public lecture on Wednesday, August 30.

To hear the address by His Excellency Mr Tammam Sulaiman, the Ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic to Australia, at UQ on Wednesday, August 30, please go to our Podcast page. The address was organised by UQ’s Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPCS).

The free public lecture, chaired by ACPCS Director Professor Kevin Clements, is from noon until 2pm on August 30 in Room S304 of the Social Sciences Building at the St Lucia campus.

Professor Clements urged anyone interested in the Middle East to attend the event.

“If there is going to be any lasting peace in the Middle East then Syria is an important component of any solution. It is vital that Australians and the Australian government listen to Syria’s perspectives on these issues in order to understand and respond to their deeper needs and interests,” Professor Clements said.

Mr Sulaiman was previously Chargé d’Affaires of the Syrian Embassy in Canberra (November 2005–February 2005). Before that, he was Office Director for the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Syria.

His Excellency has participated in Foreign Ministry Delegations to the Arab Summit conferences of Amman 2001, Beirut 2002 and Sharm Al-Sheikh 2003, and periodical Arab foreign ministries meetings; Durban conferences of the Non-Aligned Movement Summit and Anti-Discrimination in 2001; the Euro-Mediterranean meeting in Crete 2003; and the Tenth Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2003.

He was Second Secretary of the Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations in New York and participated in the United Nations General Assembly 49th–55th sessions (1994–2000), Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York 2000. Prior to that, he worked with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO) in the Syrian Golan.

For more information, phone 3365 1763, email acpacs@uq.edu.au or visit Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.

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Media: Professor Kevin Clements (3365 1763) or Shirley Glaister at UQ Communications (3365 2049).