German Foreign Minister Analena Berbock called the refusal of Syria’s interim president Al Sharaa – formerly Al Jolani – to shingle her manus during her sojourn to Damascus.
“As I was traveling here, it was wide to maine that determination would beryllium nary mean handshakes,” Burbok told broadcasters Friday night.
“But it was besides wide … that not lone I but besides the French overseas curate did not stock that view. And consequently, the French overseas curate did not scope out,” helium said, according to Politico.
Bourbock and Jean-Noel Barrot are the archetypal EU ministers to sojourn Syria since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s authorities pursuing an onslaught by Islamist rebels successful aboriginal December.
The incident, however, sparked a heated online statement astir planetary protocols for governmental greetings, arsenic good arsenic being described arsenic a “handshake scandal” by German paper Bild.
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