Syria begins ‘new phase of revival’, President Al-Sharaa tells General Assembly

Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that his country “is rising” on many levels, thanks to the strength of its people.In his second address to the General Debate in New York, he said Syria has begun to reclaim “its place among nations and States” through the diplomatic bridges it has built – proving “to the whole world that the security of the East is woven in Damascus and cannot be established without it”.Mr. Al-Sharaa said Syria has been “united from north to south”, with weapons in the hands of non-State groups brought fully under Government control, security institutions rebuilt, sanctions lifted, reconstruction and investment projects launched, and a process of transitional justice – and efforts to determine the fate of the missing – well underway.‘Destruction has ceased’“In Syria’s journey through the conflict between good and evil, the war has laid down its burdens, the bloodshed has stopped, and the destruction has ceased,” he said. “Syria has begun its journey of recovery and revival, quickening its pace, confident in its path.”He said his country was waging an open war against cross-border criminal networks, including drug and human ...