The United States on Monday denounced the Arab League's decision to reintegrate Syria, more than eleven years after it was excluded due to the suppression of a popular uprising that degenerated into war.
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We don't think Syria deserves to be readmitted to the Arab League at this point," State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters. "We continue to believe that we will not normalize our relations with the Assad regime and we do not support our allies and partners who do," he added.
Reconstruction of the country
Washington has long opposed any normalization with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Arab foreign ministers on Sunday reintegrated the Syrian regime into the Arab League, a move that comes at a time when the Syrian president is in dire need of investors to tackle the huge reconstruction project in his country.
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Damascus recently emerged from its isolation, benefiting from a surge of global solidarity in February after an earthquake devastated large parts of Syria and Turkey.