EU Considering Ending Syria sanctions Hints EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas

• EU Foreign Policy Chief confirms Meeting of European Foreign Ministers
• The meeting to be held on January 27

During a top Middle Eastern and Western diplomats and Syria’s new foreign minister’s meeting in Riyadh, the EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas stated that the European foreign ministers are scheduled to meet in the end of January.

The meeting is set with an intent to discuss lifting sanctions on Syria. Kaja also mentioned that the foreign ministers would convene on January 27 in Brussels, intending to resolve how the 27-nation bloc would relax sanctions on Syria.

The President of Syria Bashar al-Assad was ousted after a total of 13 years of civil war. He got exiled one month ago, in a lightning offensive by insurgent forces. These forces were leading by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

Kaja said, “If we see the developments going to the right direction, we are ready to do the next steps … If we see that it’s not going to the right direction, we can also move back on this.”

The Western and regional leaders’ first such meeting i.e., Sunday’s conference was hosted by regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia since ouster of Assad, coming as Damascus who urges the West to lift sanctions in order to aid the flow of international funding more freely.

After the conference was wrapped, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, the foreign minister of Saudi said in a press conference that he was focusing on “lifting the unilateral and UN sanctions imposed on Syria as continuing … sanctions will hinder the aspirations of the Syrian people to achieve development”.

Additionally, Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister added, “Syrians now need a quick dividend from the transition of power, and we continue to help those in Syria who have nothing, as we have done all the years of civil war.”

Furthermore, the discussions would put its focus on assisting for interim Syrian authorities that includes “mechanisms to hold the Assad regime to account for the war crimes they perpetrated against the Syrian people, as said by the UK foreign office.