Syria’s president to go to Turkey and UAE subsequent week

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa will make his first go to to the United Arab Emirates and can also be scheduled to go to Turkey subsequent week.
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Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa will make his first go to to the United Arab Emirates and can also be scheduled to go to Turkey subsequent week, the Syrian international ministry mentioned in an announcement on Sunday (April 6, 2025), as he continues to garner help for the brand new administration.

Sharaa, who beforehand visited Turkey in February, will make the UAE his second Gulf vacation spot after touring to Saudi Arabia that very same month on his first international journey since assuming the presidency in January.

He and different members of the brand new Syrian management have been working to strengthen ties with each Arab and Western leaders following the autumn of Bashar al-Assad in a lightning offensive in December, led by Sharaa’s Sunni Islamist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

Sharaa and his officers have additionally known as for a full lifting of sanctions on Syria.

Syria is in determined want of sanctions aid to kick begin an economic system collapsed by practically 14 years of warfare, throughout which the USA, the U.Okay. and Europe positioned powerful sanctions on folks, companies and entire sectors of Syria’s economic system in a bid to squeeze now-ousted chief Assad.