Published By: Saurabh Verma
Last Updated: April 30, 2023, 19:54 IST
The 12-year conflict in Syria has claimed round half 1,000,000 lives and practically half of its inhabitants at the moment are refugees or internally displaced.
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Monday’s assembly in Amman will convey collectively international ministers from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria
Arab international ministers will collect in Jordan on Monday to focus on Syria’s long-running battle and ending Damascus’s diplomatic isolation within the area, the international ministry in Amman stated.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has been politically remoted because the battle in his nation started in 2011.
However, current weeks have seen a flurry of diplomatic exercise after Saudi Arabia and Iran — an in depth ally of Damascus — resumed diplomatic ties in March, shifting regional relations.
Monday’s assembly in Amman will convey collectively international ministers from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
The talks will “take inventory of the contacts of those international locations with the Syrian authorities to attain a political answer to the Syrian disaster”, a foreign ministry statement said Sunday.
It called the gathering “a continuation of the consultative meeting of the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, which was hosted by Saudi Arabia” in mid-April.
That assembly noticed 9 Arab states meet in Jeddah to focus on ending Syria’s lengthy spell within the diplomatic wilderness and its potential return to the 22-member Arab League after Damascus was suspended in 2011.
The diplomats harassed the “significance of getting an Arab management position in efforts to finish the disaster” in Syria, a statement by the Saudi foreign ministry said.
The United Arab Emirates re-established ties with Damascus in late 2018. April also saw Syria and Tunisia announce they would reopen diplomatic missions in their respective capitals.
Regional opponents to Damascus’s reintegration remain, however. Qatar, which has supported Syrian rebel groups, called the idea of Syria returning to the Arab League mere “speculation”.
The 12-year conflict in Syria has claimed round half 1,000,000 lives and practically half of its inhabitants at the moment are refugees or internally displaced.
Swathes of territory nonetheless stay exterior authorities management.
Assad is hoping full normalisation of ties with the rich Gulf monarchies will assist to finance the reconstruction of the nation’s war-ravaged infrastructure.
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