Syria’s al-Sharaa pledges commitment to climate goals at COP30

Appearance astatine Amazon acme comes earlier talks with Trump successful Washington aft UN Security Council lifted sanctions.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa joined satellite leaders astatine the United Nations COP30 summit successful Brazil, pledging his committedness to planetary efforts to bounds clime change, successful the latest motion that the war-torn state is returning to the planetary fold.

Al-Sharaa told the Brazil acme connected Thursday that his state was afloat connected committee with the United Nations Framework Convention connected Climate Change and invited investments successful renewable vigor arsenic portion of his country’s “ambitious” plans for reconstruction and recovery.

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The president acknowledged the analyzable challenges faced by Syria aft the 14-year civilian warfare that yet toppled longtime president Bashar al-Assad past December, successful a definitive lightning violative led by al-Sharaa, portion underlining the urgency of tackling clime change, which deed Syria hard this twelvemonth with “a drought dissimilar immoderate it has seen successful implicit six decades”.

He called connected nations to fortify “bonds of practice from the Amazon to the Barada and Euphrates rivers, wrong a model of beardown inter-state collaboration and successful enactment of the increasing relation of processing nations”.

His sojourn to the Amazon came earlier talks with United States President Donald Trump successful Washington. The White House declined to nonstop high-level officials to the acme aft Trump told the UN General Assembly (UNGA) this twelvemonth that clime alteration is the world’s “greatest con job”.

On Thursday, the UN Security Council voted to region sanctions imposed connected al-Sharaa and his Interior Minister Anas Khattab, marking yet different measurement retired of the planetary isolation that marked the al-Assad years.

The resolution, championed by the US, was seen arsenic a mostly symbolic determination arsenic sanctions were waived each clip al-Sharaa needed to question extracurricular Syria anyway. He was the archetypal Syrian caput of authorities to be the yearly UNGA gathering successful September successful astir six decades, where helium called for a lifting of each sanctions against his country.

An assets frost and arms embargo volition besides beryllium lifted.

Al-Sharaa led absorption fighters who overthrew President Bashar al-Assad’s authorities successful December.

His group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), began an offensive on November 27, 2024, reaching Damascus successful lone 12 days, resulting successful the extremity of the al-Assad family’s 53-year reign.

On Saturday, US peculiar envoy Tom Barrack said Syria is expected to articulation the US-led anti-ISIL (ISIS) coalition, describing it arsenic “a large step” and “remarkable”.