The president of the United States, Donald Trump, with the president of Syria in Saudi Arabia his old enemy, after the surprising announcement that the United States to the government led by Islamists.
Trump met with the Syrian Ahmed al-Sharaa before a summit between the United States and the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf. Photos published by Saudi state television showed them shaking their hand in the presence of the heir prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Bin Salmán.
Turkish president, Tayyip Erdogan, joined Trump and Mohamed Bin Salman at the meeting, the Turkish news agency Anadolu reported.
Trump urged Sharaa to join the United Arab Emirates, Baréin and Morocco, who normalized their relations with Israel by virtue of Abraham’s agreements negotiated by the United States in 2020, according to the press secretary of the White House in the social network X.
The United States also expects Saudi Arabia to join Abraham’s agreements. The conversations on the subject were paralyzed after the outbreak of the Gaza War and the kingdom insists that there can be no normalization without the creation of a Palestinian State.
Trump said Tuesday that Saudi Arabia would join the agreements in due time. Despite the concerns in his government’s sectors about the old links of Syria’s leaders with Al Qaeda, Trump said Tuesday during a speech in Riyadh that he would lift Syria sanctions.
He also said that Washington was exploring the normalization of relations with the Syrian government from his meeting with Sharaa.
The lifting of the sanctions occurred despite the deep Israeli suspicions about the Sharaa government, concerns initially shared by some US leaders. High Israeli charges have continued to describe Sharaa as a jihadist, although he broke ties with Al Qaeda in 2016. The Office of the Israeli Prime Minister did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The decision is a great impulse for Sharaa, who has been fighting to put the country under the control of the Damascus government after overthrowing President Bashar al-Asad in December.
The elimination of US sanctions that isolated Syria from the global financial system will clear the way for a greater participation of humanitarian organizations working in Syria, facilitating foreign investment and commerce as the country is rebuilt.
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Trump meets with the Syrian president and urges him to establish ties with Israel
Israel, an ally of the United States, has opposed the relief of sanctions to Syria and has intensified its military operations since the overthrow of ASAD, stating that it will not tolerate an Islamist presence in southern Syria.
Israel has taken over the land in the southwest of the country, has warned the Syrian government that it does not display forces there and has flown much of the weapons and heavy equipment of the Syrian army in the days after the fall of Asad.
The challenges faced by the new Syrian government were also exposed in March, when Asad’s loyal ones attacked government forces, which caused revenge attacks in which Islamist gunmen killed hundreds of civilians from the Alauito minority, which caused a strong sentence in the United States.
Syrian Foreign Minister said in a statement on Wednesday that the meeting between Trump and Sharaa included discussions about the fight against terrorism and cooperation to eliminate the influence of non -state actors and armed groups that threaten Syrian stability, including Islamic State.
This meeting will be followed by another among Syrian Foreign Minister and his American counterpart, Marco Rubio.
Trump’s first day of a four -day journey through the Persian Gulf region was marked by luxurious ceremonies and commercial agreements, including a commitment from Saudi Arabia to invest 600,000 million dollars in the United States and 142,000 million dollars in sales of US weapons to the kingdom.
Later, on Wednesday, Trump will fly to Doha, La Capital Qatari, where he will participate in a state visit with Emir Qatarí, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Azani and other senior positions. It is expected that Qatar, a key ally from the United States, announce hundreds of billions of dollars in investments in the United States. Trump’s visit to Doha would occur after the White House announced this week that plans to accept a Boeing 747-8 plane as a gift from the Qatari, which would be equipped to serve as Air Force One.
The luxurious plane, which would be one of the most valuable gifts ever received by the US government, would finally be donated to Trump’s presidential library. He has unleashed the outrage of democrats and bipartisan security concerns. Some leaders have said that they could create a perception of corruption, even in the absence of a “Quid Pro quo.”
Although the precise details of the investments that Qatar plans to announce on Wednesday were not clear, Qatar Airways was expected to announce an agreement to buy about 100 wide fuselage aircraft from Boeing, according to a source close to the matter.
After his visit to Qatar, Trump will fly to Abu Dhabi on Thursday to meet with the leaders of United Arab Emirates. It is expected to return to Washington on Friday, but has said that, instead for a possible meeting between Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski.
With Reuters information.
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