Jolani visits preps US for Damascus-Tel Aviv normalization.
Al-Akhbar News Network reported in an article that Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa will travel to Washington in the next two weeks and is scheduled to sign an agreement to join the US-led international coalition against ISIS. This comes at a time when US Special Envoy to Syria Thomas Barak has announced that an agreement between the new Syrian and Israeli officials is close and that Damascus is moving towards normalizing relations with Tel Aviv.
The Lebanese media outlet wrote that the visit, which is the first by a Syrian president to the White House and is expected to take place on the 10th of this month, is part of US efforts to accept the transitional authorities and achieve some success in the Syrian issue, especially in signing a security agreement between Damascus and Tel Aviv.
Al-Akhbar added that the two sides were on the verge of signing a security agreement on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, when Israel added a clause on opening a road from the occupied territories to the Syrian province of Sweida, preventing the signing of the agreement.
The Lebanese media outlet wrote: On the sidelines of the Manama meeting, Barak announced direct negotiations between Tel Aviv and Syria, mediated by the United States, to reach a comprehensive security agreement by the end of this year, and considered the negotiations to be progressing, saying: “We hope that a security agreement will be signed. The Syrians are doing well.”
Al-Akhbar stated: “Syria’s participation in the US-led coalition against ISIS opens a path to normalizing relations with Israel, under Washington’s supervision, and thus redraws Damascus’s position in the region.”
According to IRNA, Reuters news agency announced yesterday that the head of the Syrian interim government, Ahmed al-Sharaa, will travel to Washington around November 10 as part of an official visit.
The agency wrote that no Syrian leader has made an official visit to the United States so far.