TUNIS: Tunisia’s President Kais Saied on Monday asked his foreign affairs minister to start steps that would appoint a new ambassador in the Syria’s capital Damascus, the Tunisian presidency disclosed. This is the latest Arab move to end Syria’s isolation across the MENA region.
Saudi Arabia is mulling to extend an invitation for Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad to an Arab League summit in May that Riyadh is set to host in May, 3 sources familiar with the plans said last week, according to a Reuters report.
Tunisia cut off diplomatic ties with Syria around 10 years ago
Tunisia cut off diplomatic ties with Syria around ten years ago to protest Assad’s bloody crackdown on demonstrations seeking democracy in 2011 that morphed into civil war in which millions flee from the country and hundreds of thousands of civilians have thus far been killed.
Since Saied seize nearly all powers in July 2021, which according to his political opponents is a coup, Tunisia has hinted it was open to changing its diplomatic stance with Syria.
Tunisia reinstituted a limited diplomatic mission to Syria in 2017, in part to help track more than 3,000 Tunisian militants fighting in Syria.
