Suica announced the package in Damascus Wednesday, saying it would focus on sectors including energy, education, health and agriculture, helping rebuild Syria’s economy, support its institutions and promote human rights.
“We want that reconstruction and recovery will be Syria-owned and Syria-led,“ she said, on the first visit by an EU commissioner since a transitional government was unveiled in late March.
Syria has been navigating a delicate transition since Islamist-led forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December after nearly 14 years of civil war.
“This is a pivotal moment -- a new chapter in EU-Syria relations,“ Suica said on X, calling her meeting with interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa “constructive”.
Refugee returns should be “safe, voluntary and dignified”, Suica said.
The EU last month sanctioned three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders for serious human rights abuses over their alleged involvement in sectarian massacres in the costal heartland of the Alawite minority, to which Assad belongs, in March.
She said Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani would attend a ministerial meeting involving almost a dozen Mediterranean countries in Brussels on June 23.
“We want to see Syria united” and inclusive, Suica told AFP. “This is a process. It will happen step by step.”
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