Syria de facto chief Ahmed Al-Sharaa was appointed president of the “transition period”, state media report, seven weeks after managing the rebellious offensive that overthrew Bashar al-Assad.
Rebellious military commander Hassan Abdul Ghani also announced the cancellation of the 2012 Constitution in Syria and the dissolution of the Parliament’s news agency, the army and the security of the Old Regime.
As President, Sharaa is said to be an interim legislative council to help govern until the approval of a new constitution, he said.
All the rebel groups opposed to Assad during the 13-year civil war would be dissolved and integrated into state institutions, he added.
The announcements occurred during a meeting in Damascus on Wednesday at the presence of the commanders of the factions that fought alongside the rebel alliance led by the Islamist group of Sharaa, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS).
HTS-A former affiliate of al-Qaeda who is always designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations, the United States, the EU and the United Kingdom-previously dominated the last rebellious bastion of the northwest of the Syria.
In 2011, Assad brutally crushed a peaceful uprising in pro-democracy, causing a civil war in which more than half a million people were killed and 12 million other forced to flee their homes.
On December 8, when the rebels entered Damascus after having sent the army and sweeping the north in the space of only 12 days, Assad resigned from the presidency and fled to Russia.
An interim government led by Mohammed Al-Bashir, the former chief of the rebellious administration in the northwest, was responsible for leading the country until March.
Earlier Tuesday, the Syrian government called on Russia to face “past errors” by paying war repairs, during the first visit to a better delegation from the Kremlin since the fall of Assad, its faithful ally.
Sharaa and the Russian Foreign Vice Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, discussed “the reconstruction of confidence with the Syrian people by concrete measures such as compensation, reconstruction and recovery,” Sana reported.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that its delegation had expressed “unwavering support” to the unit and preparation of Syria to help its recovery from the civil war.
The Russian army has carried out tens of thousands of air strikes in the areas held by rebels after intervening in the conflict in support of Assad in 2015. A surveillance group based in the United Kingdom claims that more than 21 000 people, including 8,700 civilians, were killed by these strikes and more other Russian operations.
Since the fall of the Assad regime, Russia has removed the troops and the weapons from its two bases on the Mediterranean coast of Syria – the Hmeimim air base near Latakia and the naval base in Acements
Photos of recent satellites analyzed by BBC Verify showed that two Russian warships were anchored inThis said that the experts suggested that an evacuation of the establishment had started.
However, Russia seeks to keep the two bases, which gives it a strategically important foot in the eastern Mediterranean.
After visiting the Russian delegation in Damascus, the spokesperson for Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists in Moscow: “It was an important trip, and contacts were also important, because it is necessary to establish and to maintain a constant dialogue with Syria. “
When asked for information that the Syrian government had requested extradition and Assad’s war repairs in return, he replied: “I leave this without any comments. We will continue to dialogue more with the Syrian authorities . “
In an interview with Al Arabiya TV at the end of last month, Sharaa noted “deep strategic interests between Russia and Syria” and said that he did not want Russia to leave “in a way that undermines his relationship with our country “.
“All arms of Syria are of Russian origin, and many power plants are managed by Russian experts,” he added.
