UAE and Syria establish relations
2023.01.04 13:39
UAE and Syria establish relations
Budrigannews.com – On Wednesday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates in Damascus. This is the latest sign that Assad’s relationship with an Arab nation that once supported rebels trying to overthrow him is warming up.
The UAE’s state news agency WAM reports that the meeting discussed developments in Syria and the Middle East as a whole. It stated that UAE support for a political solution to the more than a decade-old conflict in Syria was noted by Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed.
According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, they talked about economic relations and developments in the region and abroad.
After a meeting with Assad in November 2021 that rekindled relations, this was Abdullah bin Zayed’s first trip there. Several months later, in March 2022, Assad made his first trip to an Arab nation since the beginning of the Syrian civil war.
Because he led a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011 that escalated into an armed conflict that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and sent millions fleeing, Assad remains a pariah in Western nations.
An additional [Arab?] Turkey, not Arab] nations, have resumed normal relations with Assad, albeit without immediately improving the lives of Syrians.
More than half of the 20 million people who lived in the country before the war are either internally displaced or living in other countries as refugees. The economy is still in ruins.
The most high-level meeting between the two countries’ defense ministers since the start of the war was held last week in Moscow, according to reports.
Turkey has been a major player in the conflict in Syria by supporting the opposition to Assad and sending troops into the north.
The United Nations refugee agency says that it also takes in more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees.
The rapprochement, encouraged by Russia, Assad’s most powerful ally, may aid in the conflict’s resolution.
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