In the army's camps, the morals, generosity, simplicity, and spontaneity of Jordanians are embodied, and their unity and cohesion are manifested. Here you find the son of the far south, the son of the center, and the son of the far north; here you find the son of the desert, the son of the village, and the son of the city. You find them all sharing a loaf of bread and eating from the same bowl. That is why the Arab Army was and remains the most important crucible of national melting, and that is also why the members of the Arab Army were and remain competing to see who can offer more to protect Jordan, so that Jordanians may live in security and safety under the shadow of the army and its Supreme Commander. This is a fact that became more firmly rooted in me during the visit of the Amman Group for Future Dialogues delegation last Saturday to the Northern Military Region, and the meeting with its commanders, officers, and soldiers from the border guard brigades stationed along more than two hundred and forty kilometers, including our borders with Syria and part of our borders with occupied Palestine. They are vigilant, standing guard around the clock to protect our borders, because they believe that the stability and prestige of the borders is the preservation of the prestige and stability of their state. They insisted on succeeding in their mission, and they achieved what they wanted; the first of which was their stopping and repelling of drug and arms smuggling gangs, which left no method or trick untried to breach our borders and introduce their poisons into or through our country to destroy Jordanians, especially the youth. Drugs are a type of war that destroys nations without shedding blood; therefore, resisting the danger of drugs is not only the task of the army and security services, but a national responsibility that falls upon all citizens and institutions of the country. It is a responsibility in which our armed forces have succeeded in performing their role, when they thwarted all attempts by drug smuggling gangs—attempts that shattered against the rock of the vigilance of the border guard heroes of the Arab Army, whose leadership has spared nothing for them in terms of training, qualification, development, and armament, as is the case with all formations of the armed forces. Thus, the border guards combined, in addition to the courage and intelligence of their members, the latest surveillance tools and the most lethal types of weapons. Faced with all this, the smuggling gangs, with their people, drones, balloons, donkeys, and dogs, could not breach our borders, thanks to the vigilance of the protectors of these borders, who perform their duty with full confidence in themselves, the nation, and their leadership—a confidence that makes them feel pleasure while performing this duty. It is this pleasure that enabled them to destroy the effectiveness of any development or evolution that smuggling gangs introduce to their means and methods. Here, the border guard officers point to a fundamental reason for the success in protecting the borders and confronting the gangs, which is that the relationship between the armed forces and the security services in our country has gone beyond the stages of coordination and partnership and has reached the stage of integration; therefore, everyone works as one body.
The visit of the Amman Group for Future Dialogues to the Northern Military Region began when a young, polite officer arrived at the group's headquarters at the scheduled time to accompany the delegation to its destination, and it ended with the same young officer bidding farewell in front of the group's headquarters at the scheduled time. Punctuality is part of the discipline and moral virtues that members of the Arab Army are raised on and distinguished by. So, greetings to every one of them.