Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s new chief, would love higher relations with Moscow, Qatar stated.
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has advised Russian President Vladimir Putin that Syria’s new chief is eager to construct ties with Moscow.
At talks within the Russian capital on Thursday, Al Thani assured the Russian chief that interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa was in search of to construct relations with Russia, after the elimination of former President Bashar al-Assad, who was an in depth ally of Moscow.
“As for Syria, a number of days in the past President al-Sharaa was in Qatar, and we spoke with him in regards to the historic and strategic relationship between Syria and Russia,” Al Thani advised Putin.
The talks come as Putin makes an attempt to retain Russia’s use of two army bases in Syria to keep up its affect within the area after al-Assad fled the nation in December as opposition fighters led by Ahmed al-Sharaa closed in on the capital.
Putin stated Syria’s state of affairs, rocked by sectarian violence in current weeks, was of significant significance.
“We wish to do every little thing to make sure that Syria, firstly, stays a sovereign, impartial and territorially integral state, and we wish to talk about with you the opportunity of offering help to the Syrian folks, together with humanitarian help,” the Kremlin chief advised the emir.
The 2 males additionally mentioned the situation in Gaza, the place Qatar performed a key position in brokering a January ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas for a three-phase ceasefire.
Israel restarted its offensive within the besieged enclave in March, and talks to attempt to restore the ceasefire have up to now failed to realize a breakthrough.
“We reached an settlement relating to Gaza a number of months again, however Israel has not adhered to the settlement,” Al Thani stated.
“Qatar, in its position as a mediator, will try to bridge differing views in an effort to succeed in an settlement to finish the struggling of the Palestinian folks.”
Putin advised the emir, “We all know that Qatar is making very severe efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian battle.
Sadly, the initiatives put ahead, together with by you, haven’t been applied. Peaceable folks proceed to die in Palestine, which is an absolute tragedy of in the present day.”
Interfax quoted Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov as saying there was no substantive dialogue of the warfare in Ukraine, however Putin expressed thanks for Qatar’s involvement in arranging the return of children from each international locations who had been separated from their mother and father through the warfare.