The flight from Qatar landed round 1pm at Damascus Worldwide Airport, in response to AFP correspondents, the primary from the Gulf state in 13 years.
A Syrian Airways flight additionally took off for Sharjah, within the United Arab Emirates, at round 11:45am.
“In the present day marks a brand new starting,” airport director Anis Fallouh advised AFP.
“We’ve began to welcome worldwide flights taking off and touchdown in Damascus.”
Syria’s planes have been repainted to mirror the brand new nationwide flag that has changed the Baathist one used underneath Assad.
That is the primary worldwide industrial flight since 8 December, the date Damascus was captured by armed teams led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
Syria’s new administration has been pushing to finish the nation’s isolation amid persevering with considerations over governance and HTS’s former hyperlinks to al-Qaeda.
Throughout a go to to Qatar on Sunday, Syria’s new international minister stated US sanctions imposed in the course of the former authorities have been hindering the nation’s skill to get well swiftly from years of battle and known as on Washington to elevate them.
“These sanctions represent a barrier and an impediment to the fast restoration and improvement of the Syrian individuals who await providers and partnerships from different nations,” Syrian International Minister Asaad al-Shibani stated after assembly with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who additionally serves as international minister.
On Monday, the US introduced that it will be softening some sanctions on Syria, with the Treasury issuing a common licence lasting six months authorising some transactions, together with power gross sales and incidental transactions.
The Treasury stated that the transfer didn’t represent the lifting of the sanctions, however was meant to make sure they “don’t impede actions to satisfy primary human wants, together with the availability of public providers or humanitarian help”.
Shibani’s first international journey was to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the place he met with Saudi officers to debate methods to assist Syria’s political transition.
The Syrian international minister may even go to the United Arab Emirates and Jordan later this week.
