Germany Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is in Damascus, Syria on Friday for talks with the country's new rebel-formed government, APA reports citing DW.
"My trip today — together with my French counterpart and on behalf of the EU — is a clear signal to the Syrians: A new political beginning between Europe and Syria, between Germany and Syria, is possible," Baerbock said, according to a ministry statement issued before she left for Damascus.
"The painful chapter of Assad's rule is over. A new chapter has begun, but not yet written. Because at this moment the Syrians have the chance to take the fate of their state into their own hands again," Baerbock said in a post on social media platform X.
Baerbock has said that the new Syrian government's relations with Germany and the EU is conditional on women and men of all ethnic and religious beliefs playing a role in Syria's new political system and that they are protected.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot is also on the visit to Syria and said in a post on social media platform X: "Together, France and Germany stand alongside the Syrian people, in all their diversity."
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