Brussels (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – European Union foreign policy chief said that she had assigned the EU’s top diplomat in Syria to go to Damascus and make contacts with the new Syrian administration.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas said the EU’s representative to Syria was going to Damascus to speak to the new rulers, as Western powers formed engagement after the expulsion of Bashar al-Assad. The announcement from the European Union comes after the United States and UK stated they had made a connection with the new authorities in Damascus, headed by “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (HTS).
“I’ve tasked European top diplomat in Syria to go to Damascus to make contacts with the new government and people there,”
Kaja Kallas expressed in her doorstep address ahead of the EU foreign ministers assembling in Brussels.
“Our top diplomat in Syria will go to Damascus today,”
Kallas added.
Meanwhile, she expressed the bloc’s foreign ministers will consult in today’s meeting in Brussels on how and on what level they will contend with the new administration of Syria.
Recalling previous sessions in Jordan with Arab nations, Türkiye and the US on the issue,
she stated:
“It’s very essential that the regional actors, as well as the international players, see the picture in the same way, and want this government to be stable, peaceful and an all comprising government in place.”
