The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares explained this Sunday that the information that comes to him from Syriaand that of the small colony of nine Spaniards there only one has asked to leave the country.
“The first priority is that very small colony of Spaniards,” he said in statements in TVE Albares, what has detailed that they are five Spanish women married to Syrians, in addition to four aid workerswith whom Foreign Affairs is already in contact. There are also a hundred Syrian-Spanish people who have not expressed their desire to leave the country, according to the minister.
In any case, “As soon as the airport and the border reopen we will analyze the situation again”stressed Albares, who has stated that he is “very much in contact” with European partners and “Arab friends” in the region about the emerging situation. after the “very rapid” fall of President Bashar al Assad after 24 years in power.
