Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received on Sunday Syria’s newly-appointed President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, who arrived in the Kingdom earlier in the day on his first official visit abroad since his appointment as the country’s transitional president.
Pictures shared by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) showed MBS welcoming al-Sharaa and his accompanying delegation in Riyadh.
Earlier on Sunday, Syrian news agency, SANA, posted a picture on X al-Sharaa along by Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani en route to the Kingdom.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and MBS congratulated al-Sharaa on Thursday for his appointment as Syria’s transitional president, a day after Syria’s new authorities announced that al-Sharaa, who took power following Bashar al-Assad’s ouster in December, had been named interim president and tasked with forming a transitional legislature.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan visited Damascus last month, where he met al-Sharaa. Prince Faisal said Riyadh was seeking to help Syria’s new authorities secure the lifting of international sanctions.
He added that Saudi Arabia was standing by Syria, pointing to “the importance of accelerating the lifting and freezing of all sanctions.”
Last month, al-Shaibani made his first official trip abroad when he visited Saudi Arabia, which has been providing humanitarian aid to the country
Speaking to Al Arabiya in December, al-Sharaa said that the Kingdom “will certainly have a large role in Syria’s future,” pointing to “a big investment opportunity for all neighboring countries.”
He mentioned that he was born in Saudi Arabia, where his father worked at the time, and lived there for the first few years of his life.
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