Syria’s al-Sharaa to meet Russia’s Putin in Moscow on Wednesday

The travel volition beryllium Ahmed al-Sharaa’s archetypal authoritative sojourn to Russia, a longtime state of the erstwhile Bashar al-Assad regime.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa volition sojourn Russia connected Wednesday to conscionable with President Vladimir Putin, Syria’s authorities quality bureau reports, arsenic portion of a broader diplomatic propulsion to bolster the Damascus transitional government’s planetary legitimacy.

It volition beryllium al-Sharaa’s archetypal authoritative sojourn to Moscow, a longtime state of the erstwhile Bashar al-Assad authorities that al-Sharaa’s forces ousted successful December.

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During the visit, al-Sharaa and Putin volition sermon “regional and planetary developments” and “ways to fortify cooperation”, Syria’s SANA quality bureau reported connected Tuesday, citing the statesmanlike media directorate. Al-Sharaa volition besides conscionable with members of the Syrian assemblage surviving successful Russia, the study said.

The Reuters quality bureau cited a Syrian authoritative arsenic saying that al-Sharaa volition clasp talks connected the continued beingness of Russia’s naval basal successful Tartous and its aerial basal successful Khmeimim. The root added that al-Sharaa besides plans to formally petition that Moscow manus implicit al-Assad, who has been surviving successful exile with his household successful Moscow since fleeing Syria successful December.

Al-Sharaa, who erstwhile headed the Syrian subdivision of al-Qaeda nether the sanction Abu Mohammed al-Julani, commanded rebel forces that seized Damascus and installed a caller authorities precocious past year, ending al-Assad’s decades-long rule.

Since then, Russia has sought to physique ties with Syria’s caller leadership, including offering Damascus diplomatic enactment implicit Israeli strikes connected Syrian territory.

SANA reported that Putin called al-Sharaa successful February, expressing enactment for Syria’s “unity, sovereignty and stability”. In July, Putin and his curate of overseas affairs, Sergey Lavrov, met with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani successful Moscow.

The Syrian president’s sojourn to Moscow follows his September travel to New York, wherever helium addressed the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), declaring that Syria was “reclaiming its rightful spot among the nations of the world” and urging for an extremity to sanctions.

Syria is “writing a caller section successful its story, titled peace, stability, and prosperity”, helium told the UNGA.