Syria and Ukraine signed an agreement to resume diplomatic relations after years of severed ties, Syria’s Foreign Ministry announced Thursday.
The ministry said in a statement on its Telegram channel that the signing took place on Wednesday in the presence of President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the United Nations HQ in New York.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha, signed the agreement.
The statement said the agreement aims at developing bilateral cooperation in the political, economic, trade, and humanitarian fields.
On Wednesday, Zelenskyy hailed the signing as an “important step,” expressing Ukraine’s readiness to “support the Syrian people on their path to stability.”
“We agreed to build our relations on the basis of mutual respect and trust,” he said in a post on X.
