Published December 16,2024
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The EU international coverage chief on Monday mentioned that she tasked the bloc’s prime diplomat in Syria to go to Damascus and make contacts with the brand new Syrian authorities.
“I’ve tasked European top diplomat in Syria to go to Damascus to make contacts with the new government and people there,” Kaja Kallas mentioned in her doorstep speech forward of the EU international ministers assembly in Brussels.
“Our top diplomat in Syria will go to Damascus today,” Kallas added.
Meanwhile, she mentioned the bloc’s international ministers will focus on in immediately’s assembly in Brussels how and on what stage they may have interaction with the brand new management of Syria.
Recalling Saturday’s conferences in Jordan with Arab nations, Türkiye and the US on the matter, she mentioned: “It’s very important that the regional actors as well as the international actors see the picture in the same way, and want this country to be stable, peaceful and an all comprising government in place.”
– Spain to ship chargé d’affaires in Damascus
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares, throughout his doorstep, mentioned that this week, the Spanish cost d’affaires will return to the embassy in Damascus, the place a particular envoy can even be despatched to start coping with the brand new Syrian authorities.
“I announce that this very week, we intend to send Spain’s charge d’affaires back to Damascus. For security reasons, they had been stationed in Beirut after assisting in the evacuation of a convoy of Spaniards who had left Syria,” Albares mentioned. “Additionally, we will appoint a special envoy to strengthen our embassy in Damascus.”
The concept is to affix the European international locations which are participating with the brand new authorities, he mentioned.
“These new contacts, obviously — and I will ask the European Union to maintain them as well — must be clearly understood as very preliminary contacts. Above all, they are contacts to convey clear red lines: the need for Syria’s future to be a peaceful one,” he added.
He mentioned that Spain can even help and collaborate to make sure that Syria maintains its territorial integrity, with no areas of the nation beneath the management of assorted armed teams.
During the ministerial assembly, the minister mentioned, they may focus on the potential return of Syrian refugees to Syria as there are thousands and thousands of Syrian refugees in Türkiye, Lebanon, Jordan, and likewise in Europe.
Source: www.anews.com.tr