UN Secretary-General António Guterres is scheduled to visit Syria later this week and meet with President Ahmad al-Sharaa, according to Israeli media reports. The visit would be a significant diplomatic engagement between the United Nations and the new Syrian leadership.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is expected to travel to Syria later this week and meet with President Ahmad al-Sharaa, Israeli media reported on Tuesday. The report, citing N12, did not disclose the specific agenda or length of the visit.
The planned visit comes amid a flurry of diplomatic activity surrounding the new Syrian leadership. As The Zioneer reported on Sunday, President Donald Trump is slated to meet with al-Sharaa in Turkey this week—the highest-level direct engagement between Washington and Damascus since the civil war. Earlier this month, al-Sharaa met with Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris in Damascus, extended an invitation to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, and Syria's foreign minister visited Beirut.
The UN has not officially confirmed the visit, and no further details have been released by Guterres's office or Syrian authorities. The trip would mark the first visit by a UN secretary-general to Syria since the end of the civil war and signal a gradual reintegration of the country into international diplomacy.
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