Donald Trump met the Islamist President Sirio Ahmad al-Chareh on Wednesday in Riyadh on Wednesday, whom he asked to normalize the relationship with Israel, after announcing a spectacular uprising of sanctions against Damascus.
The interview, the first among the presidents of the two countries in 25 years and initially announced as brief and informal by Washington, lasted almost thirty minutes, in the presence of the Saudi heir prince Mohammed Bin Salmane and the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who joined the conversation virtually.
Syrian president already received by Emmanuel Macron
The US President asked the new Syrian Head of State, who came to power in December to the head of a coalition of Islamist forces that overthrew Bashar Al-Assad, to join Abraham’s agreements, for which several Arab countries recognized Israel in 2020, according to a report published by the White House.
He also asked him to expel the members of the Palestinian armed groups, and to assume the “responsibility” of the prisons that have members of the Islamic State in Syria, currently covered by the Kurdish forces that are opposed to Turkey neighboring, according to the same source.
Syrian diplomacy has reported a “historical meeting”, claiming that he had approached the lifting of sanctions against Syria, announced the previous day by the US president, and the fight against terrorism and the “non -state actors and armed groups”, not to mention relations with Israel.
The French president Emmanuel Macron, who urged him on May 7, had also received the honors in the Elysée in the Elysée, who urged him on May 7 to protect “all Syrians without exception” in the face of violence and abuse among several Syrian communities.
Raising US sanctions against Damascus
Donald Trump had created the surprise on Tuesday by announcing that he was going to “order the cessation of the sanctions” that weigh largely in the economy of Syria, to give him “an opportunity of magnitude”, referring to his famous slogan “restoring his greatness to the United States.” This decision was more particularly claimed by Saudi Arabia and Türkiye.
Syria has been the subject of international sanctions since 1979, but they were reinforced after the repression of the power of Bashar al-Assad of prodemocratic manifestations in 2011.
The Trump-Chareh meeting took place despite the reluctance of Israel, an unwavering ally of the United States.
After Saudi Arabia, the president of the United States went to neighbor Qatar on Wednesday, then Thursday at the United Arab Emirates.
Source: BFM TV
