(9 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow, Russia – 9 December 2024
1. Various of Syrian embassy without flag
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Riad, no surname given, aerospace engineer from Damascus:
“I’m really proud of my country and proud that we won, finally, after so many years, after fourteen years, and so many people of our country (were) killed and died in this awful war that we lived in Syria. And we are really glad that we came here to our embassy in Moscow without seeing the flag of the system that used to be in Syria.”
3. Various of members of the Syrian diaspora in Moscow posing with flag of the Syrian opposition at embassy entrance
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Bassam, no surname given, Syrian diaspora member:
“We raise the flag of Syria, the flag of the new Syria, over the embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic in the Russian Federation, in Moscow. We came here today to congratulate each other on such success, on such a victory. This day is for all Syrians, for all of Syria, which has been awaited for more than 50 years, has finally come.”
5. Various of people raising flag over the embassy, cheering and chanting
6. Close up of flag
7. Mid of embassy with flag
STORYLINE:
Members of the Syrian community in Moscow gathered outside the Syrian embassy on Monday to celebrate the toppling of President Bashar Assad and to hoist the opposition flag over the building.
It comes as the Kremlin says Russia has given political asylum to Assad.
A Syrian aerospace engineer who fled Damascus seven years ago said that he is proud of his country and happy to see the embassy without the old flag that symbolised Assad’s regime.
Russian media reported Assad fled to Moscow on Sunday, hours after a stunning rebel advance seized control of Damascus and ended his family’s 50 years of iron rule.
Russia requested an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council to discuss Syria, according to Dmitry Polyansky, its deputy ambassador to the U.N., in a post on Telegram.
The arrival of Assad and his family in Moscow was reported by Russian agencies Tass and RIA, citing an unidentified source at the Kremlin.
Earlier, Russia said Assad left Syria after negotiations with rebel groups and that he had given instructions to transfer power peacefully.
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