The meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and his German counterpart with Ahmed el-Chareh was the first at this level between officials of the great Western powers and the new strongman of Damascus.
At the foot of the French flag which flies above the French embassy in Damascus, Jean-Noël Barrot stands straight, looking serious. “ Until a few weeks ago, there were no prospects for Syrians in Damascus. A people martyred, tortured, displacedhe chants in the middle of the abandoned embassy gardens. A little over a month ago, a new hope arose (…), it is a real hope, but a fragile hope. » The head of French diplomacy paid a visit to the Syrian capital this Friday, January 3 alongside his German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, who came under a mandate from the European Union.
These are not France's first steps in the Syria of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTC) rebels. On December 17, Jean-François Guillaume, special envoy for Syria, discreetly traveled to Damascus with a delegation of two diplomats to symbolically open the premises of…
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