Prime Minister to CNN: US sanctions lift on Syria is ‘right step’

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has voiced strong support for the U...

Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani has voiced strong support for the United States’ decision to lift sanctions on Syria, calling it "the right step moving forward" in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Becky Anderson in Doha on Wednesday night.

The interview aired following a state dinner hosted for US President Donald Trump, who announced the removal of sanctions on Tuesday after the fall of Bashar Al Assad’s regime and the rise of new Syrian leadership under President Ahmed Al Sharaa.

Speaking to Anderson, HE Prime Minister said, “So lifting the sanction, we believe it is the right step moving forward. What we decided to do is to start engaging with them, to start to see if they are saying and doing the right things, then we should support them.”

“We should support the stability of Syria,” he added. “We should support that Syria shouldn’t fail, and shouldn’t turn into a chaos.”