Damascus, 15 May 2025 (dpa/MIA) – Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Wednesday called for investment in his country to advance reconstruction and facilitate economic recovery.

Syria should become a country of jobs and prosperity, al-Sharaa said in a televised address.

Investors from home and abroad, including from Turkey, are welcome.

"Syria pledges to be a land of peace and joint action, and to be loyal to every hand extended to it in goodwill," said the interim president.

"The path ahead is still long," the Syrian president added.

Al-Sharaa reaffirmed his commitment to national unity and vowed that his country will no longer allow itself to be turned into a theater of external conflicts.

"Syria is for all Syrians, with all their sects and ethnicities, and for all who live on this blessed land. Coexistence is our heritage throughout history, and the divisions that have torn us apart have always been the result of foreign interventions, and today we all reject them," Al-Sharaa said.

The speech was preceded by a spontaneous meeting with US President Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia.

On Tuesday, the US president had surprisingly announced his intention to lift all sanctions against Syria. 

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