{"id":355587,"date":"2025-05-14T13:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=355587"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:04:12","slug":"foreign-ministry-issues-statement-on-the-meeting-between-president-ahmad-al-sharaa-and-u-s-president-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=355587","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Ministry issues statement on the meeting between President Ahmad al-Sharaa and U.S. President Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damascus, SANA- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates issued Wednesday a statement regarding the meeting between President Ahmad al-Sharaa and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Foreign Ministry&#8217;s statement read: \u201cA historic meeting took place between Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and U.S. President Donald Trump, that also included Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan via a phone call, with the participation of the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Syria and the United States.<a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/222222222222222222222.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-355589 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/222222222222222222222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, emphasis was placed on the importance of lifting sanctions imposed on Syria and supporting the country&#8217;s path toward recovery and reconstruction. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stressed the necessity of this step to achieve regional stability, while President Trump affirmed his country&#8217;s commitment to standing along- side Syria during this pivotal phase. President Ahmad al-Sharaa expressed his gratitude for the regional and international support, under- scoring Syria&#8217;s confident progress toward the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The discussions also covered avenues for Syrian-American partnership in counterterrorism efforts, and cooperation in eliminating the influence of non-state actors and armed groups that undermine stability, including ISIS and other threats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A follow-up meeting is scheduled between the Syrian Foreign Minister and his U.S. counterpart, Marco Rubio, to continue bilateral coordination and to build on the understandings reached during this engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ruaa al-Jazaeri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates issued Wednesday a statement regarding the meeting between President Ahmad al-Sharaa and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The Foreign Ministry&#8217;s statement read: \u201cA historic meeting took place between Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and U.S. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":355588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-bar","category-slide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355590,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355587\/revisions\/355590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}