On the margin of the meeting, Asaad al Shaibani is attending a conference which is expected to touch upon issues such as Syria’s political transition and and impact of the sanctions imposed by the EU. Syria’s foreign minister is expected to participate in the international conference that is being conducted in France, while regional and Western powers focus their attention on Paris in order to discuss the political transition and humanitarian assistance as well as the reconstruction of the country that has suffered from the hostilities for over 13 years. Ассаd Hassan Al Shaibani Is Head Of The Delegation For A First Trip To The EU Ever Since The Coup D’etat Against Al Assad. This will be his first official visit to Europe since he participated at the World Economic Forum in Davos a month ago. French President Emmanuel Macron, was due to speak to the participants of the meeting before the representatives of the conference that is expected to take place on Tuesday Between two and 3 PM (one to two GMT) on Thursday.
Representatives from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The United Kingdom, and The United States will be sending delegates to the summit.
Other participants include emissaries from Turkiye, which supported the coalition that made a regime change in Syria, as well as a few Gulf countries.
The purpose of the meeting is to coordinate a peaceful transition that preserves the sovereignty and security of the country, and simultaneously mobilizes Syria’s key adjacents and stakeholders to coordinate humanitarian and development assistance, french ministry of foreign affairs said.
Matters of transitional justice and the struggle against amnesty will also be covered.
It is of utmost importance for the self-styled Syrian authorities to, alongside Syria’s regional and foreign allies and international institutions, ensure that after over thirteen years of war and decades of merciless authoritarian rule, rebuilding policies are implemented in a way that all people of Syria can enjoy their basic rights, and civil society can thrive. Civil society in Syria should be meaningfully consulted in this, Human Rights Watch said in an open letter to the member states of the European Union.This conference, the third of its kind since al-Assad’s fall in December following the Aqaba and Riyadh conferences, does not seek to collect any resources, instead reserving this for a conference set to take place in Brussels in March.