I would like to thank the team from Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food for organizing our delegation’s visit to Damascus – to the new Syria. I look forward to receiving reports from the ministers on the negotiations and the initial results. This demonstrates Ukraine’s leadership and agility in foreign policy – qualities that can deliver the positive outcomes we need. We have the opportunity to help restore stability in Syria after years of Russian interference, and this will undoubtedly support our own efforts to restore peace for us. It would be the right step to restore our diplomatic relations and economic cooperation with Syria. And I really hope that post-Assad Syria will respect international law – something Assad couldn’t and didn’t want to do. He was dependent and simply didn’t understand what it means to respect his own people and the international community.