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Post-Assad Syria: development challenges and opportunities

Non-inquiry session

This session allowed Members to explore the most recent developments regarding the humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic amid a backdrop of fast-escalating tensions and war in the region. Specifically, it looked at:

  • challenges Syria and its interim Government face in securing long-term sustainable stability and balancing this against immediate humanitarian need;
  • economic and geopolitical barriers to recovery and reconstruction of the country’s critical infrastructure;
  • issues associated with unexploded ordinances and gun ammunition stockpiles; and
  • actions that the UK Government could take to better support the interim Syrian Government in its endeavour to regain stability despite constrained resources and successive ODA cuts.

 

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Past events

Tuesday 17 March 2026
2:00pm Public
Post-Assad Syria: development challenges and opportunities - Oral evidence 17 March 2026
2:00pm
  • Mr Hamish Falconer MP (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
  • Peter McDermott (Syria Development Director at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
2:50pm
  • Dr Ahmed Ekzayez (Deputy Minister at Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management)
3:25pm
  • Mr Andrew Moore (Director of Middle East at The HALO Trust)
  • Najat El Hamri (Regional Director, Middle East at MAG (Mines Advisory Group))
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

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  • Email: indcom@parliament.uk
  • Address: International Development Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA