Germany Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock remains in Damascus, Syria on Friday for talks with the nation’s brand-new rebel-formed federal government.
“My trip today — together with my French counterpart and on behalf of the EU — is a clear signal to the Syrians: A new political beginning between Europe and Syria, between Germany and Syria, is possible,” Baerbock stated, according to a ministry declaration released prior to she left for Damascus.
Syria’s ‘brand-new phase has actually started’– Baerbock
“The painful chapter of Assad’s rule is over. A new chapter has begun, but not yet written. Because at this moment the Syrians have the chance to take the fate of their state into their own hands again,” Baerbock stated in a blog post on social media sites system
Baerbock has actually stated that the brand-new Syrian federal government’s relationships with Germany and the EU is conditional on females and guys of all ethnic and religions contributing in Syria’s brand-new political system which they are shielded.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot is additionally on the see to Syria and stated in a blog post on social media sites system X: “Together, France and Germany stand alongside the Syrian people, in all their diversity.”
After showing up in Damascus, Barrot revealed wish for a “sovereign, stable and peaceful” Syria.
It was additionally a “hope that the aspirations of all Syrians can be realized,” he included, “but it is a fragile hope.”
Baerbock and Barrot browse through well-known Saydnaya jail
One of the very first quits on the journey was the well-known Saydnaya jail, called “the human slaughterhouse” by Amnesty International.
AFP information company reported that Barrot and Baerbock were gone along with by White Helemt rescuers as they explored the cells of the center.
Humanitarian teams state Syrian authorities under the Assad regimen, methodically hurt and performed hundreds of private citizens.
The see to Syria after rebel teams in Syria, led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), promptly obtained control over the nation, with previous President Bashar Assad taking off toRussia HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa is currently taken into consideration the head of Syria’s transitional federal government.
In the days adhering to Assad’s ousting, Western federal governments had actually been considering up exactly how finest to involve with Syria’s brand-new management taking into consideration HTS being under EU assents and additionally an assigned terrorist team.
“We know where HTS comes from ideologically, what it has done in the past. But we also hear and see the desire for moderation and for understanding with other important actors,” Baerbock stated in a declaration.
Nearly 1 million Syrians in Germany
According to the German Federal Statistical Office, around 973,000 Syrians were staying in Germany at the end of 2023. Some 712,000 of them have actually been approved evacuee condition.
Most was available in 2015, when after that-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s federal government determined to enable evacuees taking off Syria’s civil battle right into the nation.
One day after the autumn of the Assad regimen in Syria, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) released an instant freeze on asylum applications from Syrian people.
kb/wd (AFP, dpa)
