The president of the United Arab Emirates said today to his Syrian counterpart that the time has come for Damascus, which has remained diplomatically isolated for years, to return an Arab family, during a meeting they had in Abu Dhabi.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is making an official visit to the Emirates, his second to a Gulf country since the deadly earthquake that struck his country, as many Arab states restore ties with Damascus.
Assad was “accompanied by his wife Asma”, the official Emirates news agency WAM reported. This is Asma Assad’s first official visit abroad since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.
“Syria has not been with its brothers for too long and the time has come to rejoin them and the Arab environment,” said Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the Emirates.
Assad had been diplomatically isolated since the 2011 crackdown on a popular uprising against him that led to a civil war. After the earthquake that hit Syria, Arab countries increased contacts with it and sent aid to Damascus.
Earlier today the president of the Emirates stated that he had “conversations to strengthen bilateral relations” with Assad, mainly on ways in which “cooperation will be strengthened in order to accelerate stability and progress in Syria and the region”.
Source: News Beast
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