By Andrew Mills
Qatar will ship its first official delegation to Damascus on Sunday to fulfill Syria’s interim authorities and focus on reopening the Qatari embassy and enhancing humanitarian help deliveries, a Qatari official informed Reuters on Friday.
“They’ll take the mandatory steps to reopen the embassy and focus on enhancing help supply,” the official mentioned.
Earlier stories by Syria’s info ministry a couple of go to by Qatar’s intelligence chief on Thursday have been unfaithful, the Qatari official mentioned.
The go to will come lower than every week after Qatari diplomats spoke with Syria’s main insurgent faction, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, as regional nations race to open contact with the group and the interim authorities it established after its fast offensive toppled President Bashar al-Assad.
Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin was in Damascus on Thursday for talks involving Syria’s new management.
Within the report that the Qatari official mentioned was unfaithful, Syria’s info ministry had mentioned Qatar’s head of state safety, Khalfan al-Kaabi, joined Kalin within the capital on Thursday.
Qatar’s embassy in Damascus has been shut since July 2011 when it withdrew its ambassador from Damascus after a sequence of lethal crackdowns by Assad’s regime on avenue protesters – violence that led to the 13-year-long civil battle.
Doha in recent times rejected efforts by a number of Arab nations to fix relations with Assad’s authorities and reestablish diplomatic relations with Damascus.
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