MOSCOW: Syrian President Bashar Assad has tentative plans to visit Crimea in April 2019 and is in talks about starting regular passenger flights between Syria and the Black Sea peninsula, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday.
The agencies cited members of a Crimean delegation visiting Syria this week, which includes the Russian-backed prime minister of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov.
Crimea has been under Western sanctions since it was annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014.
Russia is a key ally of Assad in Syria’s seven-year long conflict and the leaders of two other Russia-backed breakaway regions, Georgia’s South Ossetia and Abkhazia, also visited Damascus this year.
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Syria’s Assad plans Crimea visit, in talks about passenger flights — agencies
Syria’s Assad plans Crimea visit, in talks about passenger flights — agencies
- The trip is tentatively slated in April next year
- A Crimean delegation visited Syria this week
Saudi industry vice minister inspects Eastern Province hubs
RIYADH: Saudi Vice Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources for Industrial Affairs Khalil bin Ibrahim bin Salamah visited several industrial cities in the Eastern Province on Thursday, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
These visits are part of the ministry’s ongoing efforts to support sustainable industrial development in the Kingdom.
During his visit, the vice minister reviewed the readiness of the industrial infrastructure in those cities and examined the production lines and operational process in several industrial facilities, as well as their growth and expansion plans, their latest practices to adopt automation solutions and advanced manufacturing technologies.
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