Qatar wants to sever ties with Syria

By Xinhua News Agency

Nov 14, 2021 12:09 am

DOHA: Qatar's top diplomat voiced hope for a halt to normalization with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates paid a visit to Damascus.

'We hope that countries will be discouraged from taking further steps with the Syrian regime,' Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani told a joint news conference in Washington with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who reiterated US concerns about rehabilitating Assad.

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