{"id":13540,"date":"2024-12-08T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T12:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=13540"},"modified":"2024-12-08T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T12:52:46","slug":"china-says-hopes-syria-returns-to-stability-as-soon-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/china-says-hopes-syria-returns-to-stability-as-soon-as-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"China says hopes Syria ‘returns to stability as soon as possible’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China’s foreign ministry said Sunday it hopes Syria “returns to stability as soon as possible”, after Islamist-led rebels announced they had taken Damascus and sent President Bashar al-Assad fleeing.
\nBeijing “is closely following the development of the situation in Syria and hopes that Syria returns to stability as soon as possible”, the foreign ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The Chinese government has actively assisted Chinese citizens who are willing to leave Syria in a safe and orderly way, and has maintained contact with… Chinese citizens who remain in Syria,” the ministry said.<\/p>\n

“We urge the relevant Syrian parties to take practical measures to ensure the safety of Chinese institutions and personnel in Syria,” it added.<\/p>\n

“At present, the Chinese embassy in Syria is still holding strong, and we will continue to provide full assistance to Chinese citizens in need.”<\/p>\n

While Russia and Iran have been Syria’s closest backers in recent years, China’s ties to the country have grown.<\/p>\n

China is one of only a handful of countries outside the Middle East that Assad has visited since Syria’s civil war began in 2011.<\/p>\n

On that 2023 trip, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Assad announced a “strategic partnership” between their countries.<\/p>\n

But with the rebel offensive sweeping through the country, the Chinese embassy in Damascus sent an urgent notice on Thursday advising its citizens to leave Syria “as soon as possible”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China’s foreign ministry said Sunday it hopes Syria “returns to stability as soon as possible”, after Islamist-led rebels announced they had taken Damascus and sent President Bashar al-Assad fleeing. Beijing “is closely following the development of the situation in Syria and hopes that Syria returns to stability as soon as possible”, the foreign ministry said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13541,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions\/13541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}