NNA - Qatar FM said in a press conference with Blinken that they have no plan to normalize with Syria and discourage other nations in the region from doing so.

Qatar is not considering normalizing ties with Syria and hopes other countries will be discouraged from taking further steps with President Bashar al-Assad's government, foreign minister Sheikh  Al-Thani said on Friday.

His comments at a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington were in response to a question on a visit this week by the foreign minister of fellow Gulf state the United Arab Emirates to Damascus.

“It will be wishful thinking to have all the countries in the region united when it comes to the issue of Syria, and we hope that countries will be discouraged from taking further steps with the Syrian regime in order not to (worsen) the misery of the Syrian people," Sheikh Mohammed said.

“We don't see any serious steps by the Assad regime showing his commitment to repair the damage that he made for his own country and people," he added.—Reuters 

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