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The Sultanate of Oman announced the appointment of a new ambassador to the Syrian regime. The regime government’s Foreign Ministry said that Minister Walid al-Muallem received Turki Mahmoud al-Busaidi, and received from him a copy of his credentials as a plenary and extraordinary ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman.
In turn, the Oman News Agency posted on “Twitter” that Al-Muallem received copies of the credentials of Ambassador Turki bin Mahmoud Al-Busaidi.
With this step, the Sultanate of Oman is the first Gulf country to return its ambassador to Damascus since 2011, as both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain had reopened their embassies in 2018 with the Syrian regime in Damascus, but representation was limited to one Charge d’Affaires.
Oman is one of the few Arab countries that maintained diplomatic relations with the government of President Bashar al-Assad after the 2011 protests, despite pressure from the United States and other Gulf allies, as visits and contacts with the Assad’s government were not interrupted.
Oman kept its embassy open. Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, upon assuming power in January, pledged to continue to establish friendly relations with all countries.
Kuwait had declared that there is no peace in Syria without holding the perpetrators accountable for the crimes that have occurred since 2011. Kuwait’s representative on the Security Council, Mansour Al-Otaibi, said on September 30, 2019: “I renew my support Kuwait to his efforts to reactivate the political process in Syria and we call on all parties to provide support and work with the Special Envoy so that he can carry out his duties to the fullest.
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