{"id":25239,"date":"2025-01-03T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T12:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=25239"},"modified":"2025-01-03T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T13:00:07","slug":"what-the-visit-of-the-french-and-german-foreign-ministers-to-syria-signifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/what-the-visit-of-the-french-and-german-foreign-ministers-to-syria-signifies\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Visit of the French and German Foreign Ministers to Syria Signifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French and German Foreign Ministers Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot and Annalena Baerbock have arrived in Damascus, where a meeting with Syria\u2019s new leadership is scheduled. Baerbock and Barrot are the first EU ministers to visit Syria since the fall of the Assad regime.<\/p>\n<p>This visit marks a step toward the gradual normalisation of relations with Ahmad al-Sharaa. It is likely that the meeting will address the prospects of lifting sanctions and potential EU assistance in Syria&#8217;s reconstruction. Notably, EU countries can offer Syria significantly more than Moscow, which is currently striving to maintain its presence in the region.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that shortly before the visit of the German and French foreign ministers, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andri\u0456 Sybiha completed a productive visit to Syria, which included the launch of food aid from Ukraine to Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French and German Foreign Ministers Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot and Annalena Baerbock have arrived in Damascus, where a meeting with Syria\u2019s new leadership is scheduled. Baerbock and Barrot are the first EU ministers to visit Syria since the fall of the Assad regime. This visit marks a step toward the gradual normalisation of relations with Ahmad al-Sharaa&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}