“Come back. We need to rebuild, be reborn and we need everyone’s help.” This Wednesday, the Prime Minister in charge of the transition in Syria, Mohammad al-Bashir, called on Syrians who had taken refuge in other countries to return to their native lands. He promised that all rights of all faiths will be guaranteed in the country, in an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
In Europe, where many Syrians have migrated in recent years, many countries have decided to freeze asylum requests from Syrian nationals. In Belgium, for example, “dIn the context of recent events in Syria, the CGRS will suspend the processing of the files of applicants from there. Scheduled personal interviews are canceled and the examination of applications is temporarily suspended”,communicated the General Commission for Refugees and Stateless Persons in Belgium.
This Wednesday, Greece was added to the list of European countries having frozen Syrian asylum applications: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy , Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. For the human rights NGO, Amnesty International, “l“The security of Syrians in Europe must not be sacrificed on the altar of political interests.”
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And on the diplomatic level:
- The head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken will travel to Jordan on Wednesday, then to Turkey, for talks on Syria after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.
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Germany calls on Turkey and Israel not to jeopardize the peaceful transition in Syria. France also asked Israel to withdraw from the buffer zone on the edge of the Golan Heights.
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Russia says it wants a situation “stabilized as quickly as possible” and Iran does not admit to being “weakened”.
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