The coming to Abu Dhabi of the master of Damascus is his first visit to an Arab country since the beginning of the uprising in Syria in March 2011.
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This is his first visit to an Arab country since the triggering in 2011 from the uprising that almost cost him his headquarters: the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, went Friday, March 18 in the United Arab Emirates ( Water), where he spoke with the de facto executive of this petromonarchy, the heir prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed Ben Zayed. This displacement is an important step in the direction of a reintegration of the Master of Damascus on the Arab diplomatic scene.
treated as a pariae by the vast majority of the planets of the planet, which imputes him the destruction of his country and the responsibility of hundreds of thousands of deaths, Bashar al-Assad was until then out of Syria, since 2011, only for brief visits to Russia and Iran, its two main allies, whose military aid was crucial in the crushing of the revolution. A bitter coincidence for the Syrian opponents, the travel to the Emirates of their executioner intervened two days after the celebration of the eleventh anniversary of the beginning of the revolt on March 15, 2011.
Washington, whose relations with the Emirates have been singularly cooled in recent months, due to divergences marked on the war in Yemen and on the Iranian nuclear file, has criticized this displacement in unusually lively terms. The spokesman for the State Department, Ned Price, said the United States was “deeply disappointed and troubled by this apparent attempt to legitimize” Bachar al-Assad. “We urge States considering a rapprochement with the ASSAD regime to think carefully at the atrocities committed by this regime against Syrians over the last decade,” he said.
“Fraternal relations”
In Abu Dhabi, the water capital, where the Syrian president was received by Mohammed Ben Zayed, says “Mbz”, the two men discussed the “fraternal relations” between their countries, according to a statement of the agency WAM emiratie press. The text affirms that the two leaders insisted on “the preservation of the territorial integrity of Syria and the withdrawal of foreign forces”, “Mbz” describing Syria of “essential pillar of Arabic security”.
Pro-Iranian Shiite militias, hurried by Tehran in the reinforcement of the regular army, are deployed in Syria, to the large displeasure of the Powers of the Gulf, including Saudi Arabia and Emirates, which do not cease To denounce, for about ten years, Tehran’s interference in the affairs of Arab States. It is these “foreign forces” that the WAM statement aims above all, even if several other non-Syrian combatants are present in the country: Russians, Turks in the Idlib region (Northwest) and Americans in Kurdish areas of the Northeast.
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