The Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection, Amr Salem, stressed that “there is no fear for Syria, because it has a qualitative team and an economic army,” and said that the government was able to secure the stability of food stocks.
This came in a meeting at the Ministry of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection that included Economy Minister Samer Al-Khalil and Governor of the Central Bank of Syria Muhammad Issam Hazemeh, in addition to heads and members of the Federation of Chambers of Industry and Commerce.
Salem said on his Facebook page: “The government’s most important priorities are to provide food items and commodities on a permanent basis, and to prevent monopoly, fraud and exploitation. Despite the global crisis, the government was able to secure the stability of food stores and there is no fear for Syria because the government’s daily concern is working to achieve food security.”
Salem added that “Syria has a qualitative team and an economic army that includes the government and a large number of industrialists and traders who work with flexibility, institutional thought and a great national effort to prevent the loss of any commodity.”
He pointed out that his ministry “is working hard to facilitate commercial work and provide all support to secure the flow of goods and foodstuffs and others at reasonable prices and put all emergency solutions in light of the sensitive stage that the global economy is going through,” as he put it.
The meeting ended with the preparation of a unified memorandum containing the basic points raised and required from the concerned authorities and submitted to the “Prime Minister” Hussein Arnous for study and taking the necessary action, according to the publication.
Most of the basic commodities and materials in the Syrian market witnessed an unprecedented rise in their prices, in the absence of any intervention by the government, as the prices of some commodities rose by 40% in recent days following the Russian military operation in Ukraine.