美国国务卿周三表示，在这个饱受战争蹂躏的国家的政治进程取得进展之前，美国不支持与巴沙尔·阿萨德总统政府实现关系正常化或取消对大马士革的制裁的努力。
安东尼·布林肯发表上述评论之际，一些阿拉伯国家最近开始改善与叙利亚的关系。阿萨德和约旦国王阿卜杜拉二世上周通了电话，这是自2011年3月叙利亚冲突开始以来的首次通话。叙利亚国防部长上个月访问了约旦，并会见了约旦军事官员。
叙利亚还被邀请参加2020年迪拜世博会，这是中东的第一次世界博览会。遭受危机打击的黎巴嫩正在努力从约旦通过叙利亚获得电力，一项为期10年的通过约旦和叙利亚向黎巴嫩输送埃及天然气的协议也在9月份恢复。
布林肯是在华盛顿与以色列和阿联酋外长举行的联合新闻发布会上说这番话的。
阿拉伯和西方国家指责阿萨德对2011年爆发的起义进行了致命镇压，并在冲突初期支持反对派。叙利亚内战已造成超过35万人死亡，数百万人流离失所。
战争的趋势在2015年末发生了变化，当时俄罗斯在军事上支持阿萨德。尽管如此，叙利亚仍在努力应对美国和许多西方国家实施的制裁。
当被问及美国是否支持一些阿拉伯国家恢复与阿萨德政府的正常关系时，布林肯在华盛顿表示:“我们没有做也不打算做的是，对关系正常化或恢复阿萨德总统的努力表示任何支持，或者取消对叙利亚的单一制裁，或者改变我们的立场，反对叙利亚的重建。”。
他说，这一政策不会改变，“除非朝着政治解决取得不可逆转的进展，我们认为这是必要和至关重要的。”
US does not support normalization of relations with Syria
BEIRUT -- The United States does not support efforts to normalize relations with the government of President Bashar Assad or lift sanctions imposed on Damascus until there is progress in the political process in the war-torn country, the U.S. secretary of state said Wednesday.
Antony Blinken's comments come as some Arab countries recently began improving relations with Syria. Assad and King Abdullah II of Jordan spoke over the phone last week for the first time since Syria’s conflict began in March 2011. Syria’s defense minister last month visited Jordan and met with Jordanian military officials.
Syria was also invited to take part in the Dubai’s Expo 2020, the first world’s fair in the Middle East. Crisis-hit Lebanon is working on getting electricity from Jordan through Syria and a 10-year old deal to transport Egyptian natural gas through Jordan and Syria to Lebanon was also revived in September.
Blinken spoke during a joint news conference in Washington with the foreign ministers of Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Arab and Western countries blamed Assad for the deadly crackdown on the uprising that erupted in 2011, and supported the opposition in early days of the conflict. Syria's civil war has killed more than 350,000 people and displaced millions.
The tide of the war changed in late 2015, when Russia threw its military weight behind Assad. Still, Syria is struggling with sanctions imposed by the United States and many Western nations.
“What we’ve not done and we do not intend to do is to express any support for efforts to normalize relations or rehabilitate Mr. Assad or lift a single sanction on Syria or change our positions to oppose the reconstruction of Syria,” Blinken said in Washington when asked whether the U.S. endorses that some Arab countries are resuming normal ties with Assad’s government.
He said this policy will not change “until there is irreversible progress toward a political solution, which we believe is necessary and vital.”
