Jeffrey: Our goal is not “get rid of Syrian President… no US finance the reconstruction of this country if the regime didn’t change
The US envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, said on Monday that his country does not seek to “get rid” of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, but will not finance the reconstruction of this country if the regime did not change “fundamentally” according to him.
Jeffrey, Who is considered one of the hawks in the US administration of President Donald Trump, said: “The Assad regime must agree to a settlement, since he’s didn’t achieved a complete victory after seven years of war, with 100,000 anti-regime militants on Syrian soil”.
“We want to see a fundamentally different regime, and I am not talking about regime change, we are not trying to get rid of President Assad”, he told a conference at the Atlantic Center in Washington.
The US official estimated the cost of reconstructing Syria to be between $ 300 billion and $ 400 billion, but reiterated the usual Western warning to Damascus that Western countries would not contribute to reconstruction funding if no political solution was acceptable to all and accompanied by a change in”, as he put it.
