{"id":139877,"date":"2025-03-20T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=139877"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:35:07","slug":"germany-reopens-embassy-in-syria-after-13-year-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/139877\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany reopens embassy in Syria after 13-year closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>On March 20, Germany reopened its embassy in Damascus after a 13-year closure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/ru\/v-sirii-vnov-otkrylos-posolstvo-germanii\/a-71983712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deutsche Welle<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy, which was closed in 2012 due to the civil war in Syria, has been officially reopened by Germany&rsquo;s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, marking her second visit to Syria since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad&rsquo;s regime.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, a small number of German diplomats will resume their activities in Damascus; however, consular services, such as visa issuance, will continue to be handled in Beirut.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20, Germany reopened its embassy in Damascus after a 13-year closure, Deutsche Welle reports. The embassy, which was closed in 2012 due to the civil war in Syria, has been officially reopened by Germany&rsquo;s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, marking her second visit to Syria since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad&rsquo;s regime. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":139842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}