Syrian leader asks Russia to deliver Assad and $ 2 billion

Syria’s new leader Ahmed Al Sharaa asked Russia’s delegation to visit Damascus to deliver the deposed dictator Bashar Al Assad – now exiled in Moscow – and about $ 2 billion in net assets held by the Assad family in Russian banks, According to a newspaper of the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday (29).

“Deliver Assad and all the upper officers who escaped to Russia was at the top of the list,” a member of the new political team of the Syrian transition government told The National.

Al Sharaa also required about $ 2 billion in net assets belonging to the Assad family in Russian banks to be transferred, according to this unidentified source.

Another Syrian source informed about the meeting told The National that Al Sharaa made it clear that Russia is “primarily responsible for the tragedies that plagued the Syrian people” since the 2011 popular revolts.

In addition, he commented that Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, with whom Al Sharaa met, “did not admit any of the errors made by Russia in the past,” but even so, the Syrian leader made it clear that “no There will be no immediate movement against Russian military interests. “

The news is released after the new Syrian government published a photo of Al Sharaa and Bogdanov squeezing his hands after Tuesday’s meeting in the Syrian capital.

According to a statement by Syrian Administration, Al Sharaa said that to restore relations with Russia – who was the main ally of Assad Syria – it is necessary to “address the mistakes of the past” as well as “respect the will of the Syrian people and serve your interests. “

Russia, in turn, has said it wants to maintain a “permanent dialogue” with the new Syrian authorities, the Kremlin said on Wednesday after the first visit of a Russian delegation to the Arab country since Assad’s escape.

At the end of last year, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin denied that Assad’s fall represented a strategic defeat to Russia in the Arab country.

In December, Duma, the Russian Chamber of Deputies, approved a law allowing the removal of the organization for liberation of the uprising, whose leader is Al Sharaa, from the list of terrorist organizations.