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| Russian company STG Engineering has suspended wheat supplies to Syria |
| 2024-12-31 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Russian company STG Engineering has suspended wheat supplies to Syria after the overthrow of former President Bashar al-Assad, TASS reports,citing the company's CEO Dmitry Trifonov. "We supplied wheat to Syria for three years, the monthly volume of deliveries was 1.1 million tons. Now the deliveries have completely stopped," the agency's source said. According to Trifonov, wheat supplies to Syria will resume after establishing contacts with the new authorities of the country. He explained that the reason for the suspension of exports is the debt of the Syrian side to the Russian company, which amounted to 116 million dollars. The leader of the new Syrian government, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said in an interview with Al Arabiya TV that Syria has strategic interests related to Russia. He also added that Damascus does not want Moscow to leave Syria to the detriment of relations between the two countries. In September, Russian Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev said at a visiting meeting in the Saratov Region that the situation in the Russian agro-industrial complex remained normal, despite the worsening weather during spring field work. At that time, almost 64 million tons of wheat had been harvested. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 8, the former leader of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, announced his resignation as president and left Syria amid the offensive of the armed opposition and the gradual loss of control over the cities. He and his family arrived in Russia, where they were granted asylum. Two days later, the armed Syrian opposition ordered its forces to withdraw from the captured cities so that internal security units and the police could enter. |
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