Leading Syrian business group based in the GCC will establish a center in the Middle East as part of its efforts to rebuild Syria. The institute will be based in the US, according to Moataz Al Khayyat, the head of the Al Khayyat Group in the GCC.
Al Khayyat, who heads a delegation of Syrian businessmen from the Gulf Region to the US, discussed the initiatives the US businesses can offer to rebuild Syria after 4 years of bloody revolution against the regime and the rehabilitation of more than 5 million refugees and displaced citizens in Syria and in the neighboring countries once the stability is achieved in the country.
At a gathering held by the Association of “Syrian Christians for Peace” in Washington DC last week, Al Khayyat said building a center to fight radicalism has become a top priority to safeguard social fabric in the region and is equally urgent to go hand in hand with rebuilding Syria.
He said the war has exhausted and destroyed Syria and “we have to take every effort as Syrian businessmen to meet influential international players in the United States in order to help putting an end to the humanitarian sufferings of the Syrian people,” Al Khayyat stressed.
He said the group has offered 20 scholarships for Syrian students studying at American universities along with the establishment of the center.
The Syrian delegation held meetings with US officials, including Ed Royce, Chairman of The Foreign Relations Committee in the Congress, Daniel Rubenstein, Special US Envoy to Syria and Fred Hoff, former US Envoy to Syria A number of issues were discussed in the meetings including the participation of Syrian businessmen to contribute in achieving swift solutions to some rebuilding and rehabilitation issues in Syria and the participation of US counterparts from the “Friends of Syria” countries in infrastructure rebuilding efforts.
Edward R. Joyce, Chairman of the US House Committee of Foreign Affairs, told Syrian business delegation that people in Syria are facing unspeakable violence under the Assad regime and from the so-called Islamic State.
He said: “We need to find ways to help relieve the sufferings of the Syrian people who have been subjected to severe violence in Damascus.”
The delegation also met members of the American Chamber of Commerce and a number of senior American businessmen in Washington and New York.
