Syria offers Trump a subsoil agreement in exchange for withdrawal of sanctions – media
Donald Trump and Ahmed Al-Sharaa. Photo: The Times
US President Donald Trump considers the possibility of withdrawing sanctions from Syria in exchange for access to the country’s natural resources and permission to erect Trump Tower to Damascus.
Source: The Times
Details: President Trump is expected to meet the new Syrian leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa during a visit to Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). Sharaa, who headed Syria in January and has an Islamist past, including al-Qaida, seeks to abolish US sanctions imposed during Bashar Assad’s time.
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The Syrian side offers the US economic concessions, including the admission of US companies to the development of mineral resources by analogy with the « Ukrainian model ». Sharaa also stated the possibility of construction of Trump Tower in the center of Damascus.
According to sources in the field of security, Sharaaa may propose negotiations on joining « Abraham Agreements » – a series of arrangements for the normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel, which have already signed the UAE and Bahrain.
He can also agree to the creation of a demilitarized zone or allow Israel to leave troops in southwest of Syria, where the Israeli forces formed a buffer zone near Golan heights captured in 1967.
Literally: « A potential meeting may participate in Palestinian National Administration, Mahmud Abbas and Lebanon President Joseph Halil Aun. If the meeting takes place, it will be an unprecedented step for the former al-Qaeda member in Iraq, who took five years in the American prison.
Details: Before departure to Saudi Arabia, Trump stated that he was considering the abolition of restrictions that block Syria access to the international trade and banking system to give the country a new launch.
« We have to make a decision on sanctions that we can well withdraw, » Trump said about Syria, although the meeting has not been officially confirmed.
Direct Trump Language: « We can abolish Syria, because we want to give them a new start. Turkish President Erdogan has already asked me about it. Many people ask me about it, because with such sanctions they really have no chance to start. So we want to see if we have not yet been helped. »
Details: Last week Sharaa met in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron, who supported the idea gradual withdrawal of EU sanctions in the event of reforms in Syria.
In the Trump administration itself, the attitude towards the future meeting is ambiguous. Some advisers, including Tulsi Gabbard and Sebastian Gork, express doubts about the expediency of negotiations with Sharaaa. At the same time, the Special Representative of the President for the Middle East, Steve Vitcoff supports the idea of dialogue, seeing in it the possibility of favorable economic agreements.
Some representatives of the Trump administration, with the support of the Gulf countries, seek to take the opportunity to remove Syria from the influence of Iran – the former ally Assad.
« If you see how the Ukrainian mineral agreement was built, it could become a template for Syria, » the source said.
If Syria joins « Abraham Agreements » and the US will use it as a lever to bring it closer to the West – this is possible, and it is discussed «
