Syria needs 'comprehensive security agreement' with Israel, foreign minister tells Euronews

Published on 13/05/2026 - 19:36 GMT+2

Israel should halt actions that “threaten” Syria’s stableness and enactment towards a “calm and comprehensive” information agreement, the country's overseas curate Asaad al-Shaibani said successful an exclusive interrogation with Euronews.

Al-Shaibani made the remarks coinciding with a high-level governmental gathering successful Brussels arsenic Israel and Syria prosecute efforts to amended relations aft decades of conflict.

In January, the 2 countries resumed US-mediated talks aimed astatine easing tensions on their borderline and restoring a United Nations-patrolled buffer portion betwixt their forces.

“We privation to person a information statement with Israel,” Al-Shaibani told Euronews' greeting amusement Europe Today. “We anticipation that these negotiations volition pb to a calm and broad statement that respects Syria’s sovereignty.”

Syria's apical diplomat insisted that Damascus sees normalisation of diplomatic relations and a bid model arsenic abstracted processes, adding that “we bash not privation normalisation to instrumentality spot nether the usage of subject unit oregon provocation.”

Since Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa led an insurgent violative ousting Bashar al-Assad pursuing a brutal civilian warfare successful 2024, Israeli officials person efficaciously acceptable speech a 1974 statement establishing a buffer portion betwixt their forces.

As a result, Israeli forces person taken power of areas successful confederate Syria and carried retired strikes wrong the country, citing self-defence arsenic justification.

“Israel has not calmed down, threatening stableness successful Syria, destabilising and targeting subject and civilian infrastructure nether mendacious and unreliable arguments,” Al-Shaibani said.

The curate called for a instrumentality to the 1974 statement and the withdrawal of Israel from the territories it occupied aft December 8, 2024.

In abstracted comments, helium besides warned that the warfare successful Iran posed a menace to Syria’s “fragile” system arsenic the state looks to rebuild a state decimated by war.

Damascus has called connected the planetary community, including the European Union, to assistance reconstruction efforts. The EU alongside the Trump medication person lifted economical sanctions successful an effort to easiness unit connected the country's economy.

“Now we are successful the process of rebuilding Syria’s system and rebuilding economical partnerships crossed the region,” helium said. “Any warfare oregon struggle successful the portion of this magnitude besides has a large economical interaction connected us.”