Syria is willing to join the Abraham Accords under the correct conditions, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told US Representative Cory Mills in a meeting on Saturday.
In a Thursday Bloomberg article, the US Republican representative from Florida said he held talks with the former leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham regarding economic sanctions and peace between Damascus and Jerusalem.
He told Bloomberg that he would deliver a letter from al-Sharaa to US President Donald Trump, adding that he planned to brief him on his conversation when he returned to Washington.
Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during a Ministerial formation of the government of the Syrian Arab Republic, in Damascus, Syria March 29, 2025. (credit: REUTERS/KHALIL ASHAWI)
Mills reported that he sat down with the Syrian president for 90 minutes and laid out the Trump administration's demands in order for sanctions against Damascus to be lifted. Some of the demands included dismantling all chemical weapons left over from the Assad era as well as countering foreign terror groups within its borders.
Notably, Syria still demands the return of the Golan Heights, which Trump recognized as Israeli territory in 2019.
“I am cautiously optimistic and look to maintain open dialog,” Mills told Bloomberg regarding the talks.
“At one point, Germany and Japan were our enemies, but we have to move beyond this if we are to have stabilization," he added.
LateralEntry on April 24th, 2025 at 14:29 UTC »
Wow, that would be pretty big if it happened. It would likely mean a permanent (or at least mid-term) end to Iran being able to use Syrian territory to supply its anti-Israel proxies and make trouble, and one less headache for the West.
TelecomVsOTT on April 24th, 2025 at 13:53 UTC »
How is he going to sell this to the Syrian people? At the grassroot level I am sure Syrians are against any form of normalization. This could risk fracturing Sharaa's control over the country.
aWhiteWildLion on April 24th, 2025 at 11:49 UTC »
Al-Sharaa is open to addressing US concerns and said to US Congressman Cory Mills that Syria is interested under the right conditions in joining the Abraham Accords, which saw the UAE and other Arab countries normalize ties with Israel during Trump’s first term.
Azerbaijan recently hosted a meeting between delegations from Türkiye and Israel which aimed reconcile the two countries’ conflicting interests in Syria.
Another topic concerning Azerbaijan that is gaining momentum in recent weeks in both the US and Israel is to also bring Azerbaijan into the fold of the Abraham Accords.