Watch: Trump plans to sign executive order to end sanctions on Syria

Trump plans to sign executive order to terminate Syria sanctionsSource Reuters

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00:00For discussions between Syria and Israel, you'll have to reach out to those respective governments.

00:04I can't comment on that.

00:06But what I can tell you is that this afternoon, the president will be signing an executive order

00:10to terminate the United States sanctions program on Syria.

00:14And this is in an effort to promote and support the country's path to stability and peace.

00:20The order will remove sanctions on Syria while maintaining sanctions on the former president Assad,

00:26his associates, human rights abusers, drug traffickers, persons linked to chemical weapons activities,

00:32ISIS and their affiliates, and Iranian proxies.

00:35And this is, again, an action that the president promised and shocked the world with in Saudi Arabia

00:40because he's committed to supporting a Syria that is stable, unified, and at peace with itself and its neighbors.

00:47The president met with Syria's new president when we were in the Middle East, as you know.

00:51And so this is another promise made and promise kept by this president to promote peace and stability in the region.