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A senior Palestinian official said he believes Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Syria in the near future, The Times of Israel reported.
The PA president has not visited Syria or met Syrian Bashar Assad since civil war broke out in the country in 2011.
“The visit of the President Mahmoud Abbas is possible at any time…It will happen soon, if God wills it,” Azzam al-Ahmad told al-Watan, a pro-Syrian government newspaper, at the opening of a new office for Palestine TV, the official PA channel, in Damascus on Monday.
Several Palestinian officials attended the opening of the Palestine TV office including Ahmad, a member of both the Fatah Central Committee and Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee; the PA’s Jenin Governor Akram Rajoub; and PLO Executive Committee member Wasel Abu Yousef.
Abu Yousef told The Times of Israel in a phone call earlier this week that he and Ahmad traveled to Damascus by car via Jordan.
Syria was expelled from the 22-member Arab League soon after the civil war erupted. Arab countries have sanctioned Damascus and condemned Assad for using overwhelming military force and failing to negotiate with the opposition.
Source: The Times of Israel.