Syria’s leaders must show action

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Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa is making the right promises with plans for democratic elections and inclusion, but actions still have to be seen, former British envoy to Syria Henry Hogger says.   #Syria

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00:00I just want to start by asking you for your thoughts on what Ahmad al-Shara has been saying

00:04to the British media.

00:05Yeah, well, good morning, I think, to you.

00:10Yes, I heard the interview that al-Shara gave to Jeremy Boehn last night, and I agree, I

00:18think, with what you were saying, that he seemed to be taking considerable pains to

00:23show that his organisation, HTS, is no longer what we would call a jihadi or certainly terrorist

00:31organisation, that it wants to be inclusive and bring all Syrians into the new government.

00:41And you referred earlier to elections.

00:44They have said that they want to do elections within, I can't remember, I think it's three

00:48months or so.

00:51All that is the right noises.

00:55Obviously, it's important to see what happens in reality on the ground, but I certainly

01:02don't detect so far any signs other than that they do genuinely want to establish an inclusive

01:10and one would hope democratic government based on a constitution, as the UN envoy has requested.

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