Turkish, US, Syrian top diplomats to weigh details of Syria's release from US sanctions

ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) - The overseas ministers of Turkey, the United States and Syria volition conscionable successful confederate Turkey connected Thursday to sermon details of U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to assistance sanctions connected Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said connected Wednesday.

In a astonishment announcement, Trump said connected Tuesday helium would bid the lifting of sanctions connected Syria astatine the behest of Saudi Arabia's crown prince and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

It was a large U.S. argumentation displacement up of his gathering connected Wednesday with Syria's Islamist President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the crown prince, and Erdogan, who joined virtually.

The removal of the sanctions has agelong been a cardinal extremity for Riyadh and Ankara, which emerged arsenic 1 of the main overseas allies of Syria's caller enactment aft Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was ousted successful December, ending 14 years of civilian war.

Erdogan has repeatedly urged Trump to rescind the U.S. sanctions connected Syria since the president returned to the White House successful January.

Speaking to authorities broadcaster TRT Haber up of an informal NATO overseas ministers' gathering successful the confederate Turkish state of Antalya, Fidan said the leaders' gathering connected Wednesday was of "historic importance".

He said the lifting of sanctions would alteration fiscal flows, concern and infrastructure improvement successful Syria, which was politically fractured and near successful wide ruins by the war.

"Now tomorrow, we, arsenic the 3 overseas ministers - Mr. Rubio, Mr. Al-Shibani, and myself - volition travel unneurotic aft the NATO gathering successful Antalya and we volition enactment connected however to transportation guardant the details of the statement that the leaders acceptable the model for and agreed upon," Fidan said, referring to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani.

"Of course, determination is simply a (congressional) limb to this substance successful the United States, determination is an medication leg, but determination is simply a volition that Mr. Trump has enactment distant from the start. Within the model of this will, and the enactment we volition do, we anticipation the bulk of these sanctions volition beryllium lifted arsenic soon arsenic possible."

Removing U.S. sanctions that chopped Syria disconnected from the planetary fiscal strategy volition wide the mode for greater engagement by humanitarian organisations moving successful Syria, easing overseas concern and commercialized arsenic the state rebuilds.

(Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; editing by Mark Heinrich)