Saudi and Katari efforts are aimed at stabilizing Syria by funding public sector salaries and increasing economic recovery plans.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud said the state and Qatar would be joint financial assistance to Syrian state employees.
His statements arrived at a joint press conference in Damascus on Saturday with his Syrian counterpart, Asad Al-Shibani.
Two Gulf countries were among the leading regional supporters of Syria’s new officers who launched a long-term ruler Bashar al-Assad in December after nearly 14 years of war.
Saturday’s statement did not give details of the exact support for the Syrian public sector. However, Syrian Finance Minister Mohammed Yosr Barni said that Syria will be provided with 29 million a month for Syria for the initial three months to pay the salary of civilian public sector workers in early May.
Reuters reports that the United States has given its blessings to the Katari initiative a few days before President Donald Trump announces the announcement Restrictions are removed on Syria imposed in the Al-Assad administration. Since then the European Union has removed the restrictions on Syria.
Most of the evidence of Saudi Arabian and Katari support came in mid -May, declaring that there were two countries Syria’s debt has been paid to World BankApproximately M. 15m.
International relationships
The new government led by interim President Ahmad Al-Shara has tried to rebuild the country’s diplomatic relations and convinced the Western states that it has turned past relationships with groups like Al-Qaeda.
The Syrian leader has repeatedly denied terrorism and support the minority, but the events of violence that caused hundreds of deaths continue to cause international tremors-even though the government and al-Shara condemn the killings.
Syria’s new government has made a unified effort to strengthen relations with the Gulf Arab states, which has begun to play a key role in financing Syria’s war-destructive infrastructure and reviving its economy.
Tuesday, the European Union Published It has adopted legal actions to raise all economic restricted measures in Syria, except for a security basis. It has also removed 24 units from the EU list of funds and financial resources, including the Central Bank of Syria.
After Saudi Arabia and Qatar cleared Syria’s debt to the World Bank, the US -based financial institution said it would restart the operation in the country after a 14 -year break.
The World Bank has begun to prepare its first project in Syria, which focuses on improving power access – a major basis for revitalizing essential services such as health, education and water supply. It recognized the beginning of an extended support to stabilize and stimulate Syria Long -term development.
Syria’s gradual re-elimination to the global economy is huge due to Trump’s dramatic change in Washington’s policies. After announcing the removal of US restrictions on May 13, Trump became the first president to meet the Syrian counterpart in 25 years.
The US has already eliminated the M 10M reward to seize al-Shara, and the Syrian president is able to travel internationally and visit world leaders, including Saudi Arabia and France.
Still, a lot has to be done. According to the February report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), at the current growth rate, Syria requires more than 50 years to return to the economic level before the war and called for a massive investment to speed up the process.
The UNDP study stated that nine of the 10 Syrians now live in poverty, a quarter of the unemployed and the total domestic product of Syria in 2011, in the year 2011, “less than half of its value.”
