Trump hoped to sign the executive order facilitating the sanctions of Syria

Washington – President Trump is expected to firm an executive order soon to relieve sanctions to Syria, two sources familiar with the anticipated order tell News themezone.

The expected executive order occurs after Mr. Trump announced in May During a trip to the Middle East, which the United States would raise all sanctions to the country. While in the Middle East, Trump met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who announced a transition government in March. The Assad regime collapsed under the weight of an offensive for opposition forces.

The Syrian Transition Government has been promoting the Trump administration for the relief of sanctions for months, and some works have been underway to relieve some sanctions since before the president of the president.

Some sanctions would still have to be formally revoked by Congress, and some sanctions established in Syria date from 1979, when Syria was designated by a state sponsor of terrorism.

Last month, the Treasury department issued a formal orientation that bens some sanctions against banks, airlines and al-Shara. He also published guidelines for transactions approved in Syria, including infrastructure projects. The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, said at that time that the measures were designed to encourage investment in Syria.

“As President Trump promised, the Treasury Department and the State Department are implementing authorizations to encourage a new investment in Syria,” said Besent. “Syria must also continue working to become a stable country that is at peace, and hopefully, today’s actions will put the country on a way to a brilliant, prosperous and stable future.”

The new transition government has blamed the sanctions, which include sanctions to third countries for doing business in Syria, for the country’s inability to pay the salaries of the civil service, rebuild the considerable fragments of the cities devastated by war and rebuild a system of medical care decimated by the war.

Türkiye and Saudi Arabia, two American allies in the region, have supported normalizing relations with the new Government of Syria. Both countries have provided help to Syria, and Saudi Arabia has offered to pay some of the country’s debts, two activities that could conflict with the sanctions. The Saudi see the opportunity to win the new Syrian government by their side, after decades of the allied country with its main regional rival, Iran, while the Assad regime was in power.

Relief was a key issue in meetings between Syrian officials, including the governor of the Central Bank Abdelkadir Husrieh and other world leaders in the FMI spring meetings and the World Bank last month in Washington.

Some of the most punitive measures were imposed in the last two decades in the Assad regime for human rights abuses and support for groups designated by the United States as terrorist organizations. The Assad government collapsed in December when rebel groups, including combatants led by Sharaa, extended to Damascus, ending a 13 -year civil war.

In 2003, then President George W. Bush signed Syria’s responsibility law, which focused on Syria’s support for terrorist groups designated by the United States such as Hezbollah, Syria’s military presence in Lebanon, as well as an alleged development of weapons of mass destruction, contrabing oil and support of armed groups in Iraq after the invasion of the United States in 2003.

Kathryn Watson contributed to this report.