In mid-May 2023, the media and Telegram channels reported that Syria President at the Arabic League summit, defiantly ignored the speech of the President of Ukraine. We checked the reliability of these messages.
On May 19, 2023, the annual summit of the League of the Arab states (LAG) was held in the Saudi Jidd. After a long break, a delegation from Syria, led by President Bashar Assad, participated in the event-the country's membership in the organization suspended in 2011 because of the civil war and restored shortly before the forum in Saudi Arabia. A special guest of the summit became Also, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, who turned to representatives of the Arab world with a speech. According to the media and Telegram channels, during the performance of the Ukrainian leader, Assad defiantly removed the headphone for synchronous translation. The authors of some publications clarify that this happened when Zelensky "began to talk about the so -called" military crimes of Russia "."
Similar notes published "News" Lenta.ru, TV channel "Star","Moscow Komsomolets" REGNUM, "Arguments and facts","Federal News Agency","Moscow 24" Eurasia Daily, "Public news service","Economics today"And others. The message about the act of Assad was widely dispersed on Telegram, several hundred channels were written about it. Among the largest of them is ""Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring"(532,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Ukraine.ru"(398 000),"Russia now"(334,000),"Putin in Telegram"(299,000),"Truthfulness"(228 000), ATEO Breaking (193 000), Voblya (166,000), "Uncle Glory"(162 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(134,000) and"Federation"(107 000). In the personal channels about the demarche of the Syrian president, among others, the TV presenter was told Vladimir Solovyov (266,000) and a permanent guest of its broadcasts Yakov Kedmi (94,000), "militaryman" Alexander Scholkov (97,000), journalist Dmitry Gordon (75,000), head of a self -proclaimed DPR Denis Pushilin (69,000) and State Duma deputy of the Russian Federation Timothy Bazhenov (15,000).
The authors of most publications about the alleged incident refer to tweet Blogger Jackson Hinkle, who for some reason is called a journalist. In reality, he leads The relatively popular channel on YouTube, and in its videos and posts does not hide the pro -Russian position. For example, in May Hinkle Published The video where the Wagner PMC mercenary opens champagne in honor of the capture of Bakhmut (the blogger himself uses the term “Liberation” adopted in Russian pro -government media), advertised T -shirts with the word Wagner, Offered the American leadership to spend money intended to support Kyiv, on the invasion of Canada, as well as repeatedly used in his tweets combination Letters Z with the flags of the Russian Federation and the USA. In your tweet about the Assad’s act at the Hinkle summit, does not give a link to any source or a fragment of the video confirming his words. The American himself in Jidd was not present.
The media and Telegram channels also do not give messages of the participants of the Lag Summit or the episode of the broadcast, during which it was possible to capture how Assad removes the headphone for synchronous translation right before or during the performance of Zelensky. The recording of the speech of the Ukrainian president published it press service, as well as among other television channels France 24 And Sky News Arabic. Assad did not get into the frame, but the record shows that some of the Arab leaders listened to Zelensky without headphones. And this is not surprising, because the President of Ukraine performed at the Lag Summit in English.
Like many heads of state, Bashar Assad speaks foreign languages. By education, Assad Jr. is a doctor, he graduated from the University of Damascus in 1988 and by the time should Of the biographical articles, he has already fluent in English. In 1992, the future president of Syria went to London to continue his studies and lived there for two years, after which he was forced to return to his homeland - his older brother, who was originally prepared in the successors, and Bashar Assad had to take his place.
The President of Syria demonstrated a high level of English proficiency in numerous interviews that foreign media took from him for almost 25 years of government. Among them are conversations with correspondents ABC In 2011, Fox News In 2013, BBC In 2015, NBC And Swissinfo In 2016 and RT In 2020. Having looked at them, it is easy to make sure that the President of Syria does not need the help of a synchronous translator in order to understand the less than ten -minute speech by the president of another country in English.
Thus, the assertion that Bashar Assad defiantly removed the headphone and thereby refused to listen to the speech of Vladimir Zelensky at the Lag summit, is not confirmed by either eyewitnesses or video shot during the event. The President of Syria is fluent in English, therefore, in order to understand the English -language performance of the President of Ukraine, he was not required to help the synchronous translator.
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