French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Tuesday, escorted by de facto Syrian leader Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, according to Abu Ali Express. Macron, who has an eye condition, kept his sunglasses on inside the mosque and wrote a dedication in the guest book.
French President Emmanuel Macron continued his historic visit to Syria on Tuesday with a morning tour of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, accompanied by de facto leader Abu Muhammad al-Jolani (Ahmad al-Sharaa), according to the channel Abu Ali Express. Macron, who arrived in Damascus on Monday evening for the first visit by a Western head of state since the fall of the Assad regime, kept his sunglasses on inside the mosque due to a known eye condition. He wrote a dedication in the mosque's guest book. The mosque visit follows Monday night's official dinner with al-Sharaa at the Presidential Palace, which had been preceded by a formal reception by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani upon Macron's landing. As The Zioneer reported Monday evening, Macron's arrival marks the first official Western state visit to Syria since the collapse of the Assad government. No details of the meeting's substantive agenda have been released.
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