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Saudi Arabia will reopen its diplomatic mission in Syria, the Saudi international ministry stated on Tuesday, almost a decade after diplomatic ties have been lower and two days after Syria was readmitted into the Arab League.
Some Arab states, together with the United Arab Emirates, have turned the web page with Damascus, reversing years of isolation over President Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on protests in 2011 and the following civil battle.
Sources informed Reuters in March that Damascus and Riyadh had agreed to reopen their embassies. The Saudi international ministry didn’t say on Tuesday when the embassy would re-open.
Syria’s state information company stated Damascus had determined to renew the work of its diplomatic mission in Saudi Arabia.
Contacts between them had gathered momentum following a landmark China-brokered deal to re-establish ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran, a key ally of Assad, a regional supply aligned with Damascus had stated.
The US, an ally of Saudi Arabia, has opposed strikes by regional international locations to normalize ties with Assad, citing his authorities’s brutality through the battle and the necessity to see progress in direction of a political answer. Some Arab international locations are additionally opposed.
The Saudi international ministry stated the choice would assist regional safety and stability.
(Reuters)