{"id":1093311,"date":"2026-07-16T18:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1093311\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:21:16","slug":"syria-and-germany-strengthen-cooperation-across-key-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1093311\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria and Germany strengthen cooperation across key sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Syria and Germany held the first session of the Syrian-German Joint Committee on Thursday, establishing a framework for cooperation in economic recovery, reconstruction, investment, energy, transport, civil aviation, transitional justice, missing persons, and refugee affairs. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The session was co-chaired by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani and German Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office G\u00e9za Andreas von Geyr, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/investment\/2329956\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SANA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Qutaiba Qadish, Director of the International Cooperation Department at Syria\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, and\u00a0von Geyr\u00a0signed the declaration establishing the joint committee during a ceremony at Tishreen Palace in Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides also signed a bilateral air transport agreement, with the document signed by Sameh Arabi, Deputy Head of Syria\u2019s General Authority of Civil Aviation and Air Transport, and von Geyr.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement establishes the legal and regulatory framework governing air services between <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/al-sharaa-addresses-new-parliament-vows-to-rebuild-syria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syria<\/a> and Germany and follows a joint declaration of intent signed in Berlin on March 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The accord paves the way for the operational phase, including coordination between the two countries\u2019 civil aviation authorities, designation of national carriers, allocation of traffic rights and flight frequencies, issuance of operating licenses, and completion of the technical and security requirements needed to launch direct flights between Syria and Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/ulviyya-salmanli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Ulviyya Salmanli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syria and Germany held the first session of the Syrian-German Joint Committee on Thursday, establishing a framework for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1093312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[6215,35,2000,299,1824,1197,6500],"class_list":["post-1093311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-cooperation","tag-energy","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-investment","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116931047103058119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1093312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}