Paris meeting between Syrian Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and his Israeli counterpart, Paris – July 24, 2025

The Syrian Future Movement is closely following the meeting in Paris on Thursday, July 24, 2025, between Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani and the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, under the direct sponsorship of the US Special Envoy to Syria. This meeting, which lasted for hours and addressed security issues related to southern Syria, carries profound political implications that require complete clarity and responsible national candor.

We, in the Syrian Future Movement, based on our vision for a political future based on legitimacy, transparency, and respect for the popular will, take the following positions:

1. We affirm that any meeting that affects national sovereignty and addresses complex security issues cannot be conducted in isolation from constitutional and oversight institutions, nor can it take place in the shadows without a clear mandate or prior public discussion.
2. We call on Minister al-Shibani to issue a detailed statement clarifying the objectives of the meeting, the participating parties, its outcomes, and whether it reflects a strategic national vision or merely an individual endeavor that falls short of sovereign representation.
3. We warn against using the meeting to implement security arrangements that could be imposed on southern Syria without clear guarantees for the protection of the local population, or without defining the parameters of Syrian sovereignty in these understandings.
4. We believe that the meeting, whatever its justifications, should be invested in creating a national negotiating process, primarily Syrian-Syrian, that sets the parameters for relations with all regional and international parties within the framework of a comprehensive national project governed by the will of the people, not the logic of imposed alignment.

The Syrian Future Movement calls for transparency to be a founding principle in political and diplomatic action. It believes that the integrity of national sovereignty begins with honest discourse, the legitimacy of representation, and the willingness of every decision-maker to assume responsibility before the people, not just outside the country.