(4 Jun 2025)
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Damascus, Syria – 4 June 2025
1. Syria’s Foreign Minister, Asaad al-Shibani (right), and Dubravka Suica, EU Commissioner for Mediterranean Affairs (left), at press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Asaad al-Shibani , Syria’s Foreign Minister:
“We have not verified the accuracy of what has been published, but of course we condemn any strike on Syria, and we hold the international community and the U.N. accountable for not putting pressure on Israel to stick to the 1974 agreement, and we said more than once that we are committed to it and ready to implement it.”
3. Al-Shibani and Suica at briefing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dubravka Suica, EU Commissioner for Mediterranean Affairs:
"So, we will start talking with Syria, of course once conditions are met, once Syria recovers a little bit and I will try to attract and bring European companies to come here, to invest here, and to open new jobs for young people here.”
5. Officials walking
STORYLINE:
Syria’s Foreign Minister said on Wednesday the country had not verified reports of rockets being fired from Syria into the Israel-controlled Golan Heights but condemned a retaliatory attack by Israel.
The Israeli army said two rockets were fired from Syria into open areas in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights on Tuesday, marking the first such strike since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad in December
Syrian state media reported that Israel shelled the western countryside of Syria’s Daraa province after the rocket launch.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, also reported Israeli airstrikes that caused “violent explosions” around the city of Quneitra and in the Daraa countryside.
A group calling itself the Mohammed Deif Brigades — named after a Hamas military leader killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza last year — claimed the attack in a post on Telegram.
The group first surfaced on social media a few days before.
“We have not verified the accuracy of what has been published, but of course we condemn any strike on Syria," Syrian Foreign Minister, Asaad al-Shibani, said as he spoke alongside Dubravka Suiva, the EU Commissioner for Mediterranean Affairs, during her visit to Damascus on Wednesday.
Syria’s foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run TV channel that it has “not yet verified the accuracy” of the reports of strikes launched from Syria toward Israel.
“We affirm that Syria has not and will not pose a threat to any party in the region,” the statement said.
It condemned the Israeli shelling, which it said had resulted in “significant human and material losses.”
Dubravka meanwhile, spoke of the importance of the relationship between the EU and Syria and the potential of future investment by European companies in the country.
“We will start talking with Syria, of course once conditions are met, once Syria recovers a little bit and I will try to attract and bring European companies to come here, to invest here, and to open new jobs for young people,” she said
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