Published January 10,2025
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Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani started his first official go to to post-Assad Syria on Friday with a tour of the landmark Umayyad mosque in Damascus.
“It’s a great pleasure… to be here this morning to visit and pay homage to all Syrian believers,” he informed AFP from the mosque, which is about 1,300 years previous and he described as “one of the most beautiful” on the earth.
He is predicted to satisfy Syria’s de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and his counterpart Asaad al-Shaibani on the presidential palace later within the morning.
Sharaa heads the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Islamist group that spearheaded the insurgent offensive that ousted president Bashar al-Assad final month, ending greater than 5 a long time of his household’s repressive rule.
Tajani arrived after internet hosting talks with European counterparts and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Rome, the place Tajani mentioned they’re looking for a “stable and united Syria”.
The Italian minister has mentioned he plans to announce an preliminary growth help bundle for impoverished, sanctions-hit and war-battered Syria.
Source: www.anews.com.tr