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Syria's Al-Qaeda-Leader-Turned President To Visit New York To Address the UN General Assembly - News From Antiwar.com
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Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who took power after Bashar al-Assad was overthrown in December 2024, will speak for the first time at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next September. It will be the first time since 1967 that a Syrian head of state has given a speech to the UN; since then neither Hafez nor Bashar al-Assad has come personally, always delegating to ministers or ambassadors.
Syria's Al-Qaeda-Leader-Turned President To Visit New York To Address the UN General Assembly - News From Antiwar.com
Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda leader who is now Syria's de facto president, is expected to travel to New York City in September to address the UN General Assembly, Reuters reported on Monday. According to The Cradle, Sharaa will become the first Syrian president to address the General Assembly since…
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Syria’s Sharaa expected to address UN in New York in September
(Reuters) -Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa is expected to address the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September, a Syrian official told Reuters on Monday.Sharaa, who once pledged allegiance to al Qaeda before severing ties in 2016, met with U.S President Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia in May in a bid to have sanctions on Syria lifted. (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
Syrian President will speak at the UN General Assembly session – The Observatorial
The temporary President of Syrian Ahmad al-Sharaa will perform in September at a session of the UN General Assembly in New York. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Syria. He will become the first head of the Syrian state to rise to the UN tribune since 1967. […]
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