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The COVID-19 pandemic in Syria is part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . The disease was confirmed to have reached Syria on 22 March 2020, when the first case was confirmed of a person who came from abroad. [ 4 ]
Ensuring national security, increasing influence among its Arab neighbours and securing the return of the Golan Heights, have been the primary goals of the Syrian Arab Republic's foreign policy. At many points in its history, Syria has seen tension with its neighbours, such as Turkey , Israel , Jordan , Iraq , and Lebanon .
22 April: 256,800 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Syria, under the UN backed COVAX initiative to vaccinate frontline health workers. Provided by the Serum Institute of India , the majority of the doses arrived in Damascus , while 53,000 doses were delivered to the northwest.
The ministry oversees the expression of Syrian foreign policy, the protection of the interests of the Syrian nations and the interests of Syrian citizens abroad, as well as the representation of the country to other countries and international organizations. The responsibilities of the Ministry of Expatriates were merged on 14 April 2011.
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Syria, [h] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [i] [16] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest.
Ahmed al-Sharaa met with European Commissioner Hadja Lahbib in Syria on 17 January 2025. The French and German foreign ministers visited Syria in early January 2025, where they met with al-Sharaa and expressed a will to "support Syria" but also stated that they would refuse to become "a financier of Islamist structures".
Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani (Arabic: أسعد حسن الشيباني, romanized: Asʿad Ḥasan al-Shaybānī) is a Syrian politician who serves as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates in the Syrian Transitional Government since 21 December 2024 under Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir, following the fall of the Assad regime.