INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
French President Emmanuel Macron will host a meeting with Syria : s President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Paris on Wednesday, the French presidency
said on Tuesday.
During the meeting, Macron will reaffirm France : s support for the construction of a : free, stable and sovereign Syria
that respects all the components of the Syrian society, : the statement said.
The visit, the first for Sharaa to a European country since
the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, is expected to address several security challenges faced by the new Syrian government, with particular
emphasis on the repeated Israeli attacks on Syria : s sovereignty, according to the state-run Syrian news agency SANA.
Sharaa in February
received an invitation from Macron to visit France, Reuters reported.
In January, Sharaa was named as interim president and pledged to form
an inclusive transitional government that would build up Syria : s gutted public institutions and run the country until elections, which he
said could take up to five years to hold.
Israel has escalated military operations in Syria since rebels ousted Assad in December, with
bombings across the country and ground forces entering its southwest, while calling for Syria to remain decentralised and isolated, read the
report.
It has framed its stance around its suspicion of Sharaa who once headed a branch of al Qaeda before renouncing ties to the group in
2016 and a desire to protect the Druze, a minority sect that is an offshoot of Islam with followers in Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
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