The Syrian presidency wrote on its Facebook page: “President Bashar al-Assad travels today to the city of Jeddah, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to participate in the work of the thirty-second session of the Council of the League Arab gathered at the summit. , which will take place tomorrow, Friday.”
This expected announcement follows a series of steps taken by Arab countries towards Syria in order to end its isolation.
And on Wednesday, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad told Sky News Arabia that President Bashar al-Assad will come to Jeddah on Friday to attend the Arab summit.
In early May, the foreign ministers of Arab countries adopted a decision to return Syria to take its seat in the League of Arab States, after a 12-year absence, after which the League’s secretary general, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said Assad could attend the summit, if he wished.
Also in early May, the Saudi monarch, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, invited Assad to attend the summit.
The invitation was delivered by Saudi Ambassador to Jordan Nayef bin Bandar Al-Sudairy during his meeting with Al-Assad in Damascus.
The Arab League suspended Syria’s membership in 2011 when civil war broke out.
In recent years, some Arab countries have resumed dealing with Syria through high-level visits and meetings.
The Arab League says that recently there has been a general Arab trend that believes that the international community, after a long period of monopolizing the Syrian file, is incapable of resolving this file, even if there is something like stability on the land inside Syria.
He believes that there are repercussions on the situation in Syria, such as drug trafficking, the fight against terrorism, the political process and the burden of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries, which requires more effective Arab interest. in Syria.
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