By Timour Azhari<\/p>\n
RIYADH, May 18 (Reuters) – Syria will take part in a closed-door session with G7 finance ministers and \u200ccentral bank governors in Paris on Monday, a person familiar \u200cwith the matter said, in a sign of its growing status less than \u200btwo years after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n
Syrian Finance Minister Yisr Barnieh is expected to attend the meeting, the person said, adding that the discussions will focus on Syria’s sustainable recovery and reintegration into \u200cthe global financial system.<\/p>\n
The two-day \u2060G7 finance chiefs’ meeting is dominated by global economic imbalances, trade tensions and the fallout from conflicts \u2060in the Middle East and Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Syria’s economy remains deeply damaged by years of war and isolation. While most sanctions have been eased or \u200blifted since \u200bformer president Assad’s removal, recovery \u200bhas been slow, with investors \u200cand banks still wary of compliance risks and the practical difficulty of reconnecting Syria to the global financial system.<\/p>\n
Syria and Ukraine are expected to be present in parts of the discussions, underscoring the G7’s emphasis on stabilising countries seen as central to regional and \u200cglobal security.<\/p>\n
The person familiar with the matter \u200bsaid Syria’s participation was part of \u200bpreparations for the G7 \u200bleaders’ summit in June and reflected a push to \u200cbring the administration of President Ahmed \u200bal-Sharaa closer to \u200bleading economies.<\/p>\n
For Damascus, participation in the G7 finance track marks another step in efforts to return to the international system, \u200battract support for \u200creconstruction and show that it has become a pivotal state \u200bin the changes reshaping the region.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Timour Azhari \u200bin Riyadh; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Timour Azhari RIYADH, May 18 (Reuters) – Syria will take part in a closed-door session with G7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12135,12134,5691,12136,30,12137,731],"class_list":["post-16011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-central-bank-governors","tag-g7","tag-minister-yisr-barnieh","tag-paris","tag-sustainable-recovery","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}