UK re-establishing diplomatic ties with Syria as Lammy visits Damascus

British overseas caput pledges enactment for Syria’s caller authorities aft talks with interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

The United Kingdom has announced it is formally restoring diplomatic ties with Syria arsenic British Foreign Secretary David Lammy travelled to the superior Damascus to conscionable with interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Al-Sharaa received Lammy connected Saturday alongside Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, according to photos of the gathering released by the presidency.

“After implicit a decennary of conflict, determination is renewed anticipation for the Syrian people,” Lammy said successful a statement released by his office, noting that the sojourn was the archetypal by a British curate to Syria successful 14 years.

“The UK is re-establishing diplomatic relations due to the fact that it is successful our interests to enactment the caller authorities to present their committedness to physique a stable, much unafraid and prosperous aboriginal for each Syrians,” helium said.

Syria has been improving relations with Western countries aft longtime President Bashar al-Assad was removed from power successful December 2024 successful an violative led by al-Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) equipped group.

In April, the British authorities lifted sanctions against a twelve Syrian entities, including authorities departments and media outlets, to assistance the state rebuild aft al-Assad’s fall.

Weeks earlier, the UK had dropped sanctions against 2 twelve Syrian businesses, mostly banks and lipid companies.

On Monday, United States President Donald Trump signed an enforcement order to dismantle a web of sanctions against Syria that had crippled the country’s system nether al-Assad.

In a connection posted connected X, al-Shaibani – the Syrian overseas curate – welcomed Trump’s decision, saying it would “open the doorway of long-awaited reconstruction and development”.

“It volition assistance the obstacle against economical betterment and unfastened the state to the planetary community,” helium said.

Syria’s new leaders person been struggling to rebuild the country’s decimated system and infrastructure aft astir 14 years of civilian warfare that killed fractional a cardinal people.

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