{"id":27114,"date":"2018-12-27T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27114"},"modified":"2018-12-27T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T15:56:09","slug":"uae-reopens-syrian-embassy-in-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27114","title":{"rendered":"UAE reopens Syrian embassy in Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1426586\/middle-east\" readability=\"58\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: The UAE\u00a0reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday to normalise ties and prevent the danger\u00a0of &#8220;regional interference&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Emirates closed the embassy in the early stages of the Syria conflict, which started in 2011, and backed rebel groups against President Bashar Al-Assad&#8217;s forces.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the strengthening of Assad&#8217;s position in recent years and the theat of the presence of Iranian forces and their proxy\u00a0militias appears to have led to Abu Dhabi seeking to improve relations.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe foreign ministry said\u00a0the UAE wanted to boost the &#8220;Arab role in supporting the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nAnwar Gargash, the UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, said: &#8220;The UAE decision&#8230;came after a conviction that the next stage requires the Arab presence and communication in the Syrian file.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe UAE flag was raised at the embassy and the charge d&#8217;affaires assumed his duties on Thursday.<br \/>Earlier this month, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir became the first Arab head of state to visit Damascus since the start of the Syrian conflict.<br \/>The border crossing between Syria and Jordan, another Arab country which backed the rebels, was reopened in October. A Syrian passenger flight flew to Tunisia on Thursday for the first time in nearly eight years.<br \/>The Arab League suspended Syria&#8217;s membership in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\n*With Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The UAE\u00a0reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday to normalise ties and prevent the danger\u00a0of &#8220;regional interference&#8221;. The Emirates closed the embassy in the early stages of the Syria conflict, which started in 2011, and backed rebel groups against President Bashar Al-Assad&#8217;s forces. But the strengthening of Assad&#8217;s position in recent years and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}