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Top European Diplomats Engage in High-Level Talks with Syria's Interim Leader

Top European Diplomats Engage in High-Level Talks with Syria's Interim Leader

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The European Union has recently dispatched a delegation to Syria, led by French Foreign Minister Jean-Nol Barrot and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. Their visit marks the first time top EU officials have traveled to the country since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. The delegation has met with the new rulers and expressed their openness to working with the government, signaling a potential shift in EU policy towards Syria.

Annalena Baerbock
Social Democratic Party
1. Now it's up to the international community to help to bring justice to the people who have suffered here in this prison of hell.
2. You simply can't fathom the terror of places like this.
3. We cannot undo the past, but we can contribute to justice by collecting evidence and ensuring these heinous crimes are investigated.
4. But we also hear and see the desire for moderation and for understanding with other important actors.
5. What the Assad regime has meant we saw today in Sednayah….this gave only a faint idea of the unimaginable physical and mental torment that took place there.
6. Ethnic and religious group involving men as well as women…must be involved in the constitutional process and in a future Syrian government.
7. This is not only in our own security interests but also what I have heard time and again from very many Syrians in Germany... and here in the region.
8. We know where the HTS comes from ideologically, what it has done in the past.
Olaf Scholz
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1. We are carefully assessing how to advance our contacts while fostering a path toward a prosperous future for Syria and its citizens.
Kaja Kallas
Reform Party
1. Our message to Syria's new leadership: respecting the principles agreed with regional actors and ensuring the protection of all civilians and minorities is of the utmost importance.
Jean-Noel Barrot
France Foreign Ministry
1. Syria cannot rise above if justice is not served. Therefore, as of today, we are offering the transitional authorities France's technical expertise to contribute to the struggle against impunity, to help achieve transitional justice, as we have done for many years already.
2. To that end, we are offering Syria's transitional authorities France's and the EU's judicial expertise, its technical expertise to assist the Syrian people in the drafting of this new constitution.
3. Together, France and Germany stand alongside the Syrian people, in all their diversity.
4. A political solution must be reached with France's allies, the Kurds, so that they are fully integrated into this political process that is beginning today.
5. It's time for Syrians to reclaim their own country, with a political transition that allows all of Syria's diverse communities to be represented, and that allows for all Syrians to be granted Syrian citizenship without religious or gender discrimination.