New government to be named in Damascus on 1 March

The interim government’s Foreign Minister, Assad al-Shaibani, said that a new government would be formed on 1 March.

Speaking at the World Government Summit held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Shaibani claimed that “the government that will be launched March 1 will represent the Syrian people as much as possible and take its diversity into account.”

The Syrian people would be “partners in change,” he said, adding that “changes and adjustments we made over the past two months on the political roadmap were derived and inspired by consultations with the diaspora and civil society”.