| Al-Khalidi, Suleiman 16 November 2020 | Personal life and death Muallem was married to Sawsan Khayat and had three children, Tarek, Shatha and Khaled |
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| " During his speech during the in September 2013, Muallem claimed that are killing Syrian soldiers and civilians and compared the recent events of the to the in the United States | Then he obtained a bachelor of arts degree in economics from in 1963 |
Later that month, Muallem also rejected calls by Ban to declare a unilateral ceasefire, insisting that governments that "finance, train and deliver weapons to the armed groups, notably Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey" be stopped.
28| " In October 2012, after urged Syria to show compassion in light of the growing humanitarian crisis, Muallem spoke at the and blamed the United States, , Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar for "aid[ing] terror" and "blatant interference" in Syria's affairs, mainly by supplying rebel groups with arms and money calling for Bashar al-Assad to step down | After serving as Syria's ambassador to the from 1990 to 2000, Muallem was named as assistant foreign minister in 2000 |
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| " From 2012 until his death, he was listed on the | Muallem began his career at foreign ministry in 1964 and served in Syrian missions to , , and the |
He called Western concerns over use "a joke" and a pretext for an -like campaign.
| In a separate interview with correspondent , Muallem said that the international peace talks were vital for Syria's future while these talks in Geneva "cannot succeed" while Turks, Saudis and Qataris are helping the rebels | He described the opposition as traitors and terrorists in his initial speech while accusing a number of states of supporting terrorism and deliberately attempting to destabilize Syria |
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| During his tenure in Saudi Arabia Muallem was a political attache | In February 2016, after was planning to send its troops to in order to fight against the , Muallem warned that any foreign army soldiers who enter without government consent would "return home in wooden coffins" |
In August 2012, Muallem gave his first interview with a Western journalist since the start of the civil war, in English, saying that the United States slogan of "fighting international terrorism when.