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US President Donald Trump has said he would lead to sanctions on Syria, a expected meeting with his leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa.
On Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, Trump agreed to “say hello” with the temporary President of Syria in Saudi Arabia as part of the Middle East excursion.
The announcement of the lifting of sanctions was met with the rise in the Syrian capital of Damascus, where vigor, dance and festive gun were heard.
Earlier, sanctions had blocked any foreign funding, including assistance to reach Syria and were originally intended to pressure the dictatorship already closed by President Bashar al -Assad.
Trump said the change of politics would give Syria a “chance of greatness”, talking about the Saudi Arabian Investment Forum: “The time has come to shine.”
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shabani noted the decision as a “main turning point for the country” in an interview with the state news agency.
The country is counting on the future of “stability, self -sufficiency and true reconstruction after a long destructive war,” he added.
Ninety percent of Syria’s population was left as part of the poverty at the end of Assad regime, and its new government pushed the sanctions because Assad was overthrown in December.
Al-Sharaa told BBC in an interview late last year The fact that Syria did not pose a threat to the world and urged sanctions to raise.
He also called for Hayat Tahrira al-Shama (HTS), the Islamist group who overthrew Assad, be attributed to the list of terrorist organization. It is intended as one UN, USA, EU and UK, among many others as the al-Qaeda’s ascal group, from which it broke away in 2016.
Last week, Al-Sharaa repeated these calls at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, saying that “these sanctions were imposed on the previous regime because of the crimes he had committed and this regime has left.”
The Syrian leader promised to defend ethnic minorities because his Sunni Islamist group led the insurgent offensive that the Bashar al -Assad’s regime had overthrown in December after 13 years of destructive civil war.
However, the massacres of hundreds of civilians from the Alavites sect of the Assad in the Western Coastal region in March during contractions between the new security forces and the Assad’s loyalists have hardened fears among the minorities.
There were also deadly clashes between Islamist armed groups, security forces and fighters from the religious minority.
The US announcement is the main incentive for Al-Sharaa, and means a significant foreign policy shift for the United States, which has previously stated that it would not lift sanctions on Syria until the problems of the minority are improving in the country.
Trump said his proclamation was followed by Prince Saudi Prince Mohammed Ben Salman and Turkish President Erdogan.
“Oh, what I do for the prince of the Crown,” said the US leader, adding, “I like him too much.”
The couple met on Tuesday at Trump’s first stop in the Middle East excursion, where they jointly announced a $ 142 billion transactions ($ 107 billion.
Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, who served as former President Barack Obama, applauded the transfer of Trump’s administration to raise sanctions.
“I visited Syria three months ago, and the country was simply devastated after a 13-year civil war. It needs to be restored, it needs reconstruction, it requires foreign funding,” he said the BBC.
“Thus, the removal of the sanctions that will allow the international streams of the capital to move to Syria from the Gulf States, from other Arab states and various help agencies.”
Trump and the United Arab Emirates will also see Trump to visit the Gulf of Arab Gulf.
