The meeting was attended by Foreign Minister of Jolani's terrorist regime Asaad al-Shaibani, along with an accompanying delegation.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine and Syria signed a communique on the restoration of diplomatic relations. “We welcome this important step and are ready to support the Syrian people on their path to stability,” he wrote on X.
“During our negotiations with President of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa, we also discussed in detail promising sectors for developing cooperation, security threats faced by both countries, and the importance of countering them.”
We agreed to build our relations on the basis of mutual respect and trust, he added.
Ukraine severed relations with Syria after the latter recognized the Russian breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine in 2022.
A year ago, if Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of the terrorist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in Syria, had attempted to travel to New York, he would have been at risk of arrest, because the US, due to his activities in Jabhat al-Nusra—which later turned into Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham—and his ties with al-Qaeda, had placed a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture.
But today, Jolani is in the US to attend the sessions of the United Nations General Assembly. This trip has drawn the attention of social media users, who widely reacted to Jolani’s arrival in New York. On the social platform X (formerly Twitter), users described the transfer of Abu Mohammad al-Jolani from an American prison in Iraq to the podium of the United Nations as a great contradiction and a striking paradox.
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