Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is postponing his planned visit to Berlin on Monday and Tuesday due to the political situation in his country, a German government spokesman told dpa on Sunday.
Al-Sharaa was supposed to meet German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, several federal ministers and business representatives on Tuesday to discuss the repatriation of Syrian refugees and the reconstruction of Syria after almost 14 years of civil war. Merz had invited al-Sharaa to Germany in November.
The announcement of the trip’s postponement came shortly after the Syrian state news agency SANA reported that al-Sharaa had reached an agreement to enforce a ceasefire between government forces and the US-allied Kurdish-led forces in eastern and northern Syria.
A “comprehensive and immediate ceasefire on all fronts and points of contact” between the government forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was announced in terms of an agreement published by SANA.