The European Commission invited Syrian Hait Taharil al-Sham (HTS) regime to an official meeting in Brussels after the massacre of hundreds of Alawis west of Syria.
European Commission spokesman Anitta Hipper revealed at a daily press conference that “the invitation has been sent.”
The donor conference entitled “Standing with Syria: Meet the Needs of a Successful Transition” (organized annually by the EU since 2017) is expected to be the first since the Assad administration was expelled in December.
Hipper said the meeting presents “a very important opportunity” to engage with the new Syrian rulers.
Over the past few weeks, the HTS-led army has committed a huge number of massacres against ethnic minorities, particularly the Alawians, in the country’s northwest coastal regions.
The so-called Syrian War Monitor says extremists along the Syrian HTS regime have recently killed nearly 1,000 civilians in the West Coast region.
According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the majority of their civilians have been killed so far in violence in the provinces of Tartus, Latakia, Hama and Homs.
With the harsh responsibilities of HTS-led military massacres, human rights groups and the international community are calling for an immediate halt of ethnic cleansing in Syria and sect-based atrocities.
They also call for the establishment of an independent international committee of search under direct UN surveillance.
EU foreign policy director Kaja Kallas stopped condemning the murders on Tuesday and defended the actions of HTS extremists.
“It’s very quick to decide if this will go in the right direction or not. The initial signal is good, but if there’s no certainty, I’m not in a hurry to any kind of arrangement yet,” she said.
Karas only expressed concern about the risks of sectarian violence in Syria and the revival of Arab extremism.