Donald Trump caused a surprise of foreign policy on Tuesday: during a visit to Saudi Arabia, the American president announced the end of all sanctions against Syria, although the country has been managed by an Islamist transitional government since December.
As US President Donald Trump explained on Tuesday in the Saudi capital Riad, all American sanctions against Syria must be lifted. “I will order sanctions against Syria to give the country the chance to be great,” said Trump. The goal is to enable the country to be able to do a “restart” by war through war.
According to information from the White House, Trump made the decision after conversations with the Saudi -Arab Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The United States also wants to resume its diplomatic relations with Syria. During the week, the American State Secretary Marco Rubio comes together with his Syrian counterpart.
New strong man in Damascus: ex-Militia Chief al-Sharaa
The background of the surprising U-turn is the fall of the old Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December. Assad was overthrown by hunters who come from the Islamist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The new transition president is Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former leader of this group. He is considered a central figure in power change and has been working publicly for weeks for the abolition of Western sanctions.
Trump announced that Al-Sharaa will meet personally in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. A high-ranking US government agent said anonymously about different media: “The president agreed to say hello to Syrian president in Saudi Arabia tomorrow.”
Criticism from Israel – attacks on minorities
After the fall of the fall of Assad, the United States had formulated the conditions for lifting the sanctions, including the protection of religious minorities such as Alawites and Drusen. However, human rights organizations report that the new government has since attacked members of these groups several times and has killed countless people.
The government of Israel is skeptical about the turn of the American work. Israel reacted with military hardness as the most important ally in the United States in the middle: since December the Israeli army has flown countless air strikes to Syrian military positions and a narrow corridor on Syrian territory occupied. According to Israeli information, Drusen from Syria was also evacuated.
Source: Krone
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