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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
RIYADH, May 14 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump met with Syrian interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa here on Wednesday to discuss normalizing bilateral ties and expressed readiness to reach an agreement with Iran.
D. Trump’s meeting with A. al-Sharaa – the first meeting between the US president and the Syrian leader in several decades – took place on the sidelines of D. Trump’s summit with the leaders of the Persian Gulf countries.
During the summit, D. Trump noted in his speech that the normalization of relations between the US and Syria began with his meeting with A. al-Sharaa.
He also called on Syria to join the US-brokered Abraham Accords to normalise relations with Israel, even though the Israeli military has regularly carried out air strikes and ground operations in Syria since the overthrow of former President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
On Tuesday, D. Trump announced at an investment forum in Saudi Arabia that he would lift sanctions on Syria.
During the summit with Gulf leaders, the US president also mentioned the ongoing indirect talks with Iran on Tehran’s nuclear program and the lifting of US sanctions.
“I want to make a deal with Iran… but for that to happen, they [Iran] must stop sponsoring terrorism, stop waging bloody proxy wars, and permanently abandon their goal of building nuclear weapons,” the US president said, calling on “all countries” to comply with the sanctions he had just imposed on Iran, which he called “the most destructive force” in the region.
Trump’s statements provoked a sharp reaction from Iran – the country’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Trump was “misleading, incorrectly indicating the true source of the threat.” -0-