Posted on 04/18/2023 3:30:29 AM PDT by FarCenter
Damascus (AFP) – Saudi Arabia's top diplomat is expected in Damascus on Tuesday, Syria said, ending more than a decade of diplomatic deep-freeze between the two countries just weeks after a landmark Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.
Recent months have seen increasing Arab engagement with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been politically isolated in the region since the start of the civil war in 2011.
A flurry of diplomatic activity has been underway in the past week as regional relations shift following a decision by Saudi Arabia and Damascus ally Iran to resume ties.
"Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan is arriving at Damascus international airport today on an official visit to Syria," the information ministry said in a statement.
It said the Saudi minister was due to arrive in the afternoon.
The trip comes less than a week after Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad visited Saudi Arabia, also on the first such visit since the start of the Syrian war.
In a meeting, Mekdad and his Saudi counterpart discussed "the necessary steps" to end Damascus's isolation, according to a Saudi statement.
Also last week, diplomats from nine Arab countries met in the Saudi city of Jeddah to discuss ending Syria's long spell in the diplomatic wilderness and its possible return to the 22-member Arab League after Damascus was suspended in 2011.
The diplomats stressed the "importance of having an Arab leadership role in efforts to end the crisis" in Syria, according to a statement by the Saudi foreign ministry.
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Further evidence that rest of the world is now TURNING AWAY from the US and the “World Community” (meaning US, Europe, and few other countries representing 15% of the world’s population), as the Saudis no longer to see the need to ‘ask permission’ from the US when they want to meet with leaders of other countries.
This is actually a great development.
“This is actually a great development.”
It is for the Saudis, not so sure about us, though.
But it’s a tough call - having the rest of the world pull away from us likely means that some parts of the world will still have some sanity...so that’s the good side. Having to live in Third World conditions at home is the bad side.
That would mean that Syria and Russia are as tight as they once were or that the Russians have no intention of rebuilding the Nord Stream pipelines and are taking their oil and gas supplies to places other than Europe.
If this is so, good ol’ Sloe Joe has been not so slow at destroying the world geopolitical and economic structure as we once knew it.
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