Belarus–Syria relations
Bilateral relations
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History
In 2007, Ba'athist Syria was one of 33 countries to vote against a United Nations General Assembly resolution titled "Situation of human rights in Belarus".[3]
On July 26, 2010, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited Minsk.[4][5] Assad has supported President Alexander Lukashenko, and Lukashenko has supported Assad in the Syrian Civil War.
In 2023, Belarus was among ten countries to join Syria in voting against a resolution that would establish an independent body to determine what happened to more than 130,000 people missing as a result of the conflict in Syria.[6]
Russian invasion of Ukraine
In 2014, Ba'athist Syria and Belarus were among 11 countries to vote against United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262 which would recognize Crimea as the territorial integrity of Ukraine.[7]
Both Belarus and Ba'athist Syria supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[8]
Fall of the Ba'athist regime
After the fall of the al-Assad regime, Belarus withdrew its diplomatic personnel from Syria on 15 December 2024.[9]
On January 23, the Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov visited Syria and met with de facto President of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa.[10]
