Syria announces that it will reopen its Embassy in Tunisia and will appoint its ambassador “soon”

12 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Government of Syria has responded positively this Wednesday to Tunisia’s announcement of its willingness to reopen its Embassy in Damascus and has stated that it will also reopen its legation in Tunisia and will appoint an ambassador “soon” to be placed in charge of it.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry has indicated in a statement published on its official account on the Facebook social network that “in response to the initiative of the President of Tunisia, Kais Saied, to appoint an ambassador to Syria, the Syrian Government announces its immediate approval to this appointment”.

Likewise, it has specified that Damascus “has decided to reopen the Syrian Embassy in Tunisia and appoint its ambassador soon”, while highlighting the “will” of both countries to “restore Syrian-Tunisian relations to their normal state”.

The ministry has detailed that, to this end, “consultations and coordination between the two ministers continue to consecrate the long-standing fraternal ties that unite Syria and Tunisia, maintain the values ​​of solidarity and synergy and defend the interests of their brother peoples. “.

The announcement came two days before the summit to be held by the Council for the Cooperation of the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) in Saudi Arabia to address ties with Syria, in the framework of a thawing of the almost total isolation in the region by which Damascus was subdued after the outbreak of the war in 2011.

Syria was expelled from the Arab League after the outbreak of the war for the repression of pro-democratic demonstrations in line with the ‘Arab Spring’, after which several regional countries, including Saudi Arabia, lent support to various rebel groups in Syrian territory. The Syrian government received the backing of Iran.

In this context, Syria and Saudi Arabia recently began talks to reestablish ties, a measure that came as a result of the recently signed agreement between Riyadh and Tehran to normalize their bilateral relations, broken in 2016. Several countries in the region have opted to restore their ties with Damascus, which has been a boost for the Syrian president, Bashar al Assad.