The leadership of Czech diplomacy once again warned against trips to Syria. The level of warning for travel to Syria remains the highest. Citizens who are there are encouraged to return as soon as it is safe.
Three travelers are registered in the Drozd voluntary registration system, and the ministry will coordinate their evacuation within the EU.
Syrian authoritarian leader Bashar Assad was overthrown on Sunday night after 24 years. At present, the situation in the country is unclear. “At the moment, we assess the insurgents who overthrew the regime very carefully due to their past,” added Lipavský.
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Until now, the Czech Republic was one of the few Western countries that had diplomatic representation in Syria.
According to the minister, it is still true that the Islamists from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel movement, who participated in the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad, are classified by the European Union and the United Nations as a terrorist organization.
The Czech government does not have and is not planning to have any contacts with them at the moment. According to the minister, the only way to sustainable peace for Syria is a political solution in accordance with UN Resolution 2254 from 2015.
“The general priority of Czech diplomacy at the moment is to stabilize the situation so that there is no further massive migration flow to Europe,” he said. He did not want to anticipate further political steps and added that coordination with partners from the EU will be key.
According to the minister, the situation is very unclear. It is necessary to wait to see how the forces will be distributed after Assad’s fall, what the transitional government will be like, and whether further violence or fighting will break out, which could trigger a wave of migration. “That is why we are calling for a political and peaceful solution,” he pointed out.
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