Syria’s foreign minister raises country’s new flag at UN headquarters
Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani has raised his country’s new flag at the UN headquarters in New York.
Mr al-Shibani will attend a UN Security Council briefing, the first public appearance by a high-ranking Syrian government official in the United States since the fall of former president Bashar Assad in a rebel offensive in December.
The three-starred flag that had previously been used by opposition groups has replaced the two-starred flag of the Assad era as the country’s official emblem.
The new authorities in Damascus have been courting Washington in hopes of receiving relief from harsh sanctions that were imposed by the US and its allies in the wake of Assad’s Брутална принуда против антиправителствените митинги през 2011 година, която се трансформира в революция.
Делегация на сирийските чиновници пътува до Съединените щати тази седмица, с цел да участва на срещите на Световния банка и Международния валутен фонд във Вашингтон...
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