| After serving as Syria's ambassador to the from 1990 to 2000, Muallem was named as assistant foreign minister in 2000 | In May 1967 he and another Syrian political attache in Saudi Arabia, Jaber Bajbuj, were declared by the Saudi authorities due to their alleged contacts with Ba'ath agents in Saudi Arabia, and both were ordered to leave the country within 24 hours |
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| 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 | Diana Mukkaled 3 December 2011 |
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".
30| in Arabic — via S A N A | Muallem began his career at foreign ministry in 1964 and served in Syrian missions to , , and the |
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| Early life and education Walid Muallem was born into a family on 13 January 1941 in | " 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 |
He served as Syria's Ambassador to from 1975 to 1980.
29| He received primary and secondary education in public schools from 1948 to 1960 | Al-Khalidi, Suleiman 16 November 2020 |
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| He died on the morning of 16 November 2020 at the age of 79 in in Damascus | " He also stated that Syria has a special relationship with |
Sami Moubayed 1 June 2005.
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