RIYADH: Syria has attracted overseas investment totaling around $28 billion so far this year, President Ahmad Al-Sharaa said on Wednesday at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh.
Sharaa said in a session attended by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that Syrian laws have been amended to allow foreign investors to transfer funds out of the country.
“We want to rebuild Syria via investments,” Al-Sharaa said, adding the world can benefit from it as a “trade corridor.”
Al-Sharaa led opposition fighters to overthrow Bashar Al-Assad late last year, bringing an end to 14 years of civil war.
Al-Sharaa has conducted a series of foreign trips as his transitional government seeks to re-establish Syria’s ties with world powers that shunned Damascus during Assad’s rule.
