Dubai: A Syrian transitional government might be the ideal solution to end the misery of the Syrians, Osama Kadi, one of the Syrian National Coalition’s candidates for prime minister in the planned transitional government, told Gulf News. The main aim behind the formation of a transitional government is to support the rebels as well as…
Even as the war in Syria rages and Bashar al-Assad clings to power, the race to find the regime’s vast—and mostly hidden—fortune is already underway. Experts say al-Assad and his associates have amassed as much as $25 billion through investments in banks, state industries and other concessions, and has stashed the money in offshore tax…
WASHINGTON – The Friends of the Syrian People International Working Group on Sanctions, “the Group,” held its second meeting in Washington, DC on June 6, 2012. The Group last met in Paris on April 17, a meeting which was the result of the decisions taken during the conferences of the Friends of the Syrian People…
DUBAI: The Syrian opposition will need $60 billion in Marshall Plan-style aid to prevent the country’s collapse within six months of a fall of the regime, prominent leader George Sabra told reporters on Wednesday. He urged a “Partnership to Invest in Future Syria” meeting held in Dubai to immediately launch a Marshall Plan for the…
The Syrian opposition has said it will need $60b in aid to prevent the country’s economy from collapsing if it takes power from President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. George Sabra, a prominent opposition leader, told reporters on Wednesday in Dubai, the commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates, that the economy could collapse within six months…
A coalition of groups battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is seeking to raise $60 billion from allied nations to help rebuild the country when fighting ends, an opposition leader said. Syria will need the money for reconstruction in the first six months after the conflict ends, Syrian National Council leader George Sabra told reporters in…
The Syrian opposition is looking to the UAE to help to kick-start a modern day Marshall Plan to rebuild the country’s shattered economy. Hundreds of business people from across the Emirates gathered in Dubai yesterday to hear the leader of the Syrian National Council (SNC) call on business leaders to fund a relief effort aimed…
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 30, 2012: Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced today that it will host a conference titled “Partnership to Invest in Future Syria” under the patronage and in cooperation with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 21, 2012, in Dubai. His Highness Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan,…
