{"id":50175,"date":"2024-12-20T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/us-diplomats-in-syria-to-meet-new-hts-authorities\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T05:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:32:00","slug":"us-diplomats-in-syria-to-meet-new-hts-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=50175","title":{"rendered":"US diplomats in Syria to meet new HTS authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The delegation of senior officials includes Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf, Roger Carstens, who is US President Joe Biden&#8217;s hostage envoy and Daniel Rubinstein, senior adviser in the Bureau of Near East Affairs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They will be engaging directly with the Syrian people, including members of civil society, activists, members of different communities, and other Syrian voices about their vision for the future of their country and how the United States can help support them,&#8221; a State Department spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They plan to meet representatives from HTS, in a show of readiness to deal with the group the US still designates as a terrorist organisation, but building pressure for it to transition to inclusive, non-sectarian government. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Washington is effectively laying down a set of conditions before it would consider delisting the group &#8211; a critical step which could help ease the path towards sanctions relief that Damascus desperately needs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The officials are seeking further information to help find the American journalist Austin Tice, who was abducted in Damascus in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c07gv3j818ko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The delegation of senior officials includes Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf, Roger Carstens, who is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2692,2331,4265,505,2512],"class_list":["post-50175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-authorities","tag-diplomats","tag-hts","tag-meet","tag-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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