section_path: Presidency (2025–present)/Foreign relations
section_name: Foreign relations
paragraph_text: Foreign relations
  
  Al-Sharaa also made it clear he valued the diversity of Syria and had moderated on his domestic and foreign policy views.
  
  After taking office as president, al-Sharaa made a trip abroad, visiting Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, France, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. He attended the Arab League 's emergency summit and the fourth Antalya Diplomacy Forum.
  
  On 7 May 2025, he met with President Emmanuel Macron in France. It was his first official visit to a Western country since becoming president. On 14 May, he met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia, the first meeting between American and Syrian presidents since Bill Clinton and Hafez al-Assad convened in Geneva in 2000, and urged him to join the Abraham Accords. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took part in the meeting. Since then, a number of Western governments have lifted the sanctions on Syria, most notably the United States and the United Kingdom.