The sources spoke: Invitation to Assad from Riyadh

In recent years, the isolation imposed on Syria, where life continues in the shadow of chaos, violence and war, has begun to lessen.

After the earthquake disasters that rocked Turkey and Syria on February 6, new steps came from the international community towards the Damascus administration, while some sources who spoke to the British news agency Reuters said that a new rapprochement between Syria would begin. and the Arab countries.

Sources speaking to the Reuters news agency said the Saudi Arabian administration is preparing to invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the Arab League summit in Riyadh in May. Speaking to the agency, three different sources said that work in this direction continues.

It was claimed that Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Ferhan plans to visit Damascus in the coming weeks and officially invite Assad. Assad’s official participation in the summit scheduled for May 19 in Riyadh will go down in history for the first time since 2011. In 2011, Syria was expelled from the Arab League. Many Western and Arab countries had decided to boycott Syria and Assad because of what happened in the country.

THEY CLASSIFY THEIR REQUESTS

Syria’s return to the 22-member union may also be a notable breakthrough for countries in the region that have been trying to reach out to Syria recently. Recently, Turkey also took steps towards rapprochement with Syria, but negotiations under the mediation of Iran and Russia had not officially started.

Speaking to Reuters, a source said talks between Damascus and Riyadh have been going on for more than a year and that Saudi Arabia has some demands from the Syrian government. Among these demands are greater border security and greater cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking.

Egypt, one of the important countries of the Arab League, has recently tried to improve relations with Syria.