Donald Trump met with the interim president Ahmed al-Charaa, this Wednesday, May 14, in Riyadh in the first stage of his official tour in the Middle East. Therefore, the latter listed a series of complaints from the US head of state.
The two leaders remained in the presence of the heir prince of Saudi Arabia, Mahoma Ben Salmane and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who joined the conversation virtually.
Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was going to “order the cessation of sanctions against Syria”, which weighs largely in his economy, saying that this strong gesture was going to “give him a chance of greatness”, allusion to his famous slogan “restoring his greatness to the United States.”
A decision particularly claimed by Saudi Arabia and Türkiye. “It gives them the opportunity to bloom. The sanctions were really paralyzed,” said Donald Trump on Wednesday.
• Normalize the relationship with Israel
Donald Trump asked the Syrian presidency to “join Abraham’s agreements”, that is, to normalize the relationship with Israel, according to a report published by the White House after a thirty -minute interview.
The US president “encouraged” Ahmed al-Charaa to “do a good job for the Syrian people.”
After the massacres committed by relatives of power Against the Alauitas last MarchIt was the duses who have recently been attacked in Syria. In response, the Hebrew State bombed this Friday, May 2 The surroundings of the Palace of the new Syrian President Ahmad al-Chareh in Damascusrenewing his warning to the Syrian authorities against any attack against this minority.
Israel arises as a protector of the druse, justifying their presence in Israel and On the golan plateauA Syrian territory occupied by the homeland of Benjamin Netanyahu since the six -day war in 1967.
In the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the Israeli army extended its positions to the goal, taking a damping area established by the UN. The Trump-Chareh meeting took place despite the reluctance of Israel, an unwavering ally of the United States.
• Expert “Palestinian terrorists”
Among the other requests from the White House tenant, we find in particular the expert to “the Palestinian terrorists” of Syria.
According to the successive governments of the Assad family, the country has organized many Palestinian factions for decades, especially members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The United States had raised so far in his relationship with Damascus undermining war since 2011 saying that they first wanted to see how the new authorities exercised their power. In particular in terms of respect for human rights and minorities.
• Assume the “responsibility” for the prisoners of the Islamic State
Donald Trump also wants Syria to “assume the responsibility” of the prisons that have the members of the Islamic State group in the northeast of the country.
The United Nations reported in January 2024 estimated that the number of combatants of the terrorist organization in Iraq and Syria varied between 3,000 and 5,000 people. In addition to these thousands of jihadists, around 9,000 veterans, women and children, populate the Kurdish prisons in the area.
Ahmed Al-Charaa, who came to power in December at the head of a coalition of Islamist forces that overthrew Bashar al-Assad, had left Syria in 2003 to gather Al-Qaeda in Iraq, then the Islamic state of Iraq.
Since he came to power, he displays intense diplomatic activityWith Arab countries but also European.
Source: BFM TV
