US does not support normalising ties with Syria, Blinken says
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US position will not change until there is ‘irreversible progress towards a political solution’.
The United States does not intend to support any efforts to normalise ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or rehabilitate him until there is irreversible progress towards a political solution in Syria, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.
Blinken’s comments at a news conference on Wednesday came at a time when a shift was under way in the Middle East among the Arab allies of the US, who are bringing al-Assad in from the cold by reviving economic and diplomatic ties.
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