Washington accepts Assad as President under conditions
The former US envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, set a condition for the US to deal with Syrian President Bashar al Assad and agree to his remaining in power as he put it.
Jeffrey said, “The United States accepts Assad’s presence if he changes his policy,” adding, “We do not say that Assad should leave”.
Jeffrey also renewed the conditions for normalization between Washington and Damascus, the most important of which is the implementation of Resolution 2254, and accountability for those who committed war crimes.
And work with the High Commissioner for Refugees for the “free and dignified return of Syrians to their country”.
The US envoy stressed that if Assad accepts these conditions, the US will ease “the pressure step by step and lift diplomatic isolation and sanctions, and if Assad himself begins to implement these conditions, we will start responding steps”.
The above comes weeks after Jeffrey resigned from his post as an the US envoy to Syria and appointed Joel Rayburn to replace him, and this came after the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, won the US presidential elections.
Washington is pursuing a policy of “freezing the conflict” in Syria, according to what Jeffrey said during previous media interviews, in parallel with the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia and Syria, to pressure them to take serious steps towards a political solution.
