Jose Manuel Alvarez attended the Reuters NEXT conference in New York on Wednesday.
Spain's foreign affairs chief said sanctions should be considered to ensure a peaceful future for Syria and respect for human rights in the Middle Eastern country, which is beginning to stabilize after more than a decade of civil war.
Syria. The Spanish minister appealed. “We have to draw a 'red line.'”
“We have to act very quickly because the decision in Damascus will probably be taken within a month and cannot have the same impact as it does today,” said José Manuel Alvarez. spoke.
The new authorities' first measures in Syria “seem to be quite reasonable”, according to the Spanish minister.
However, the head of Spain's foreign ministry has called for caution over the possibility of the Islamic rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) being removed from the United Nations list of terrorist organizations.
Syria. Bashar al-Assad fled the country. rebel forces seized power
Bashar al-Assad, who has ruled the country for nearly a quarter of a century, fled Syria's capital Damascus over the weekend.
Islamic rebels from the Tahrir al-Sham organization and their allies launched an offensive in late November and quickly took control of the country. On Sunday, the Syrian military command announced that the dictator had lost power and fled Syria. As it turned out, he and his family were granted asylum in Russia.
On Tuesday, Mohammed al-Bashir, who led the so-called National Reconstruction Government, was appointed prime minister of the interim government.
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