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Ankara – “We should now intensify our direct engagement with (the Islamist group) HTS and different factions” in Syria, mentioned Ursula von der Leyen following a dialogue in Ankara with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The top of the European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, had acknowledged shortly earlier than from Strasbourg that the EU was “prepared” to reopen its embassy in Damascus, slightly over every week after the autumn of Bashar al-Assad.
Ursula von der Leyen additionally judged that the EU and its allies “can not enable” the “resurgence” in Syria of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), which has by no means been fully eradicated.
“The danger of a resurgence is actual,” she estimated, stressing that “the unity of the (Syrian) nation have to be revered and minorities protected.”
The European Union will unlock a further billion euros to finance support to refugees in Turkey, the President of the Fee additionally introduced. (December 17, 2024)
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