Qatari minister arrived in Damascus on first Qatar Airways flight since Assad’s fall

Qatar prioritises humanitarian aid to Syria

A Qatar Airways diplomatic flight landed in Damascus this week, marking the first international flight from Qatar to land at the Syrian capital’s airport since the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime.

Dr. Majed bin Mohammed Al-Ansari, Advisor to the Prime Minister and Official Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced the arrival of HE Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi, Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, heading a high-level official Qatari delegation to Damascus.

Al-Ansari added through his account on X platform that the delegation arrived to hold a series of meetings with Syrian officials, embodying Qatar’s firm position in providing all support to their brothers in Syria.

During the meeting Qatar stressed on the need to prioritise addressing Syria’s humanitarian situation while calling for the lifting of international sanctions on the country after the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime.

«It’s necessary to lift the sanctions quickly, given that what led to these sanctions is no longer there and that what led to these sanctions were the crimes of the former regime,» Majed Al-Ansari said.

Qatar had closed its embassy in 2011 and was the first to establish the diplomatic mission for the opposition in its capital, Doha.