Antony Blinken will meet with his European counterparts on Syria on Thursday
The head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken will meet several of his European counterparts in Rome on Thursday to discuss the situation in Syria. Mr. Blinken “will meet with European counterparts to advocate a peaceful, inclusive, Syrian-led political transition”said a press release released while the Secretary of State was traveling to Seoul on Monday. The names of the parties involved in these talks were not disclosed by American diplomacy.
After South Korea, Blinken is scheduled to visit Japan and France, and join US President Joe Biden in Italy, in what will likely be the US leader’s final foreign trip before Donald’s inauguration Trump.
Western countries, which welcomed thousands of Syrian refugees during the thirteen years of civil war which tore the country apart, are seeking to establish contact with the new power which overthrew Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in December during an offensive flash.
The heads of French and German diplomacy, Jean-Noël Barrot and Annalena Baerbock, met the new leader Ahmed Al-Charaa on Friday, the first meeting at this level between officials of major Western powers and the Islamist number one.
“It is now necessary to establish a political dialogue including all ethnic and religious groups and including all citizens, that is to say in particular also the women of this country”declared the German Foreign Minister on this occasion.