Syria first joins donor conference in a key step for their new leaders

Brussels – The European Union contains a donor conference for Syria On Monday to the Peace Ensuring Manual after President Bashar Assad, the rebellion last December.

Ministers and representatives of Western partners, as well as the Regional Neighbors of Syria, the other UN’s plane countries will participate in a one-day meeting in Brussels who will chair the head of the EU Kaja Kallas.

Syria will attend the conference – the ninth edition of its kind – for the first time, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Asaad Hassan Al-Shibani will present. The event is organized in a hurry to try to take advantage Change of country concern.

The gathering comes at the insecure time. The new Syria leaders try to combine control over the territory that are divided into de facto mini-state during almost 14 years of civil war and the renovation of the country’s economy and infrastructure. United Nations in 2017. It estimated that at least $ 250 billion for the reconstruction of Syria, while experts say that number could reach at least $ 400 billion.

The prospects for economic recovery were interfered with sharp Western sanctions This was imposed during Assad’s rule and is not raised greatly.

The interim government will probably look at the Brussels conference to perform their legitimacy in the eyes of the international community in the hope that sanctions will be abolished, and at the same time they are looking for short-term assistance.

But the EU is especially in Quandary because it did not all pass recently.

Last week, ambushing the Syrian Safety Patrol Gunmen Loyal in Assad launched conflict. Some factions of the Allowed New Government launched a sectrical attack – primarily targeting members of Assad Assad’s minority sect – that supervisory groups say hundreds of civilians for several days.

In the statement, the EU has invited “for full respect for sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity,” said only “peaceful and inclusive transition, far from a malignant foreign interference, which guarantees the rights of all Syrians without the difference of any kind.”

Syria is also on the agenda of the meeting of the EU foreign ministers that Kallas will chair separately on Monday. 27-Nation block has started to make it easier Sanctions of energy, transport and financial sector for encouraging new authorities, but remains cautious.

Temporary rulers in the country fought their powers over a larger part of Syria from the Islamist former grouping group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, LED Lightning rebellion Against Assad.

Former HTS leader Ahmad Al-Sharaa is now a temporary president, in Thursday signed a Temporary constitution This leaves Syria under the Islamist Rule five years during the transitional phase.

While many were satisfied with seeing the Dictatory Rule of Assad, more than 50 years, religious and ethnic minorities are skeptical of new Islamist leaders and reluctant to provide Damascus under their new leadership to declare their areas.

The EU can re-introduce sanctions if things do not go to the will for West Backers. At the same time, Syria Economics, Infrastructure and Institutions lie in the tattoos. As an unsuccessful condition, one could become another hazard for extremists.

People have to do with just a few hours of electricity every day, the supply of water are unreliable and often insecure, unemployment lasts at 80% or 90%, and destruction spreads. Many government employees and experts needed for renovation fled after the Arabic and Arab Spring Democracy, crashed into conflict and an authoritarian rule under Assad.

The UN refugee agency said that last year, about 7 million people left their homes, but the rest was in Syria. More than 4.7 million refugees They are registered in neighboring countries, most in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. Since Assad’s fall, almost 302,000 has returned.

Despite the challenges, the UN Humanitarian Head of Tom Fletcher, who will attend the conference, is Optin. “We are now easier for us in Syria and through Syria than was under Assad’s regime,” Fletcher said to reporters last week.

“I had great conversations with caregiver’s authorities,” he said, noting that Al-Shibani was especially helped to open the border crossings.

Although the goal is in the Monday conference to generate help promises, it is also focused on meeting in Syria economic needs, and that requires peace. Infrastructure, health and education must be reduced. Jobs and cash are needed for work programs so that the Syrians can start earning a living.

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Sewell reported from Beirut. AP Journalist Edith M. Lederer in New York contributed to this report.