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2025-09-18 08:59:05
[Foreign media: Syrian Foreign Minister plans to visit Washington, D.C. to lobby for the lifting of final sanctions] According to the AXIOS website, U.S. officials said that Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani will visit Washington, D.C. on Thursday to hold talks on Capitol Hill on the permanent lifting of the remaining sanctions on Syria. It is reported that this is the first time that the Syrian Foreign Minister has visited Washington in 25 years. At the same time as this visit, the United States is also mediating to try to reach a new security agreement between Israel and Syria. A U.S. congressman said that he expects to meet with Syrian Foreign Minister Shaibani and several other senators on Thursday to discuss the permanent lifting of the "Caesar sanctions." The "Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act" is a U.S. law that came into effect in June 2020. It mainly targets the Assad regime and any entity that does business with it, especially in the fields of energy, construction and finance. The Trump administration has issued temporary exemptions to these sanctions, but only Congress has the power to vote to lift the sanctions.
