Syrians mark a month since al-Assad’s overthrow with concert in capital

Thousands be the performance successful Damascus to people the extremity of al-Assad household regularisation and astir 14 years of civilian war.

It’s been a period since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, ending much than 5 decades of his family’s regularisation successful Syria and astir 14 years of civilian war. Al-Assad escaped to Russia connected December 8 and has not been seen since.

On Wednesday night, thousands attended a performance successful the superior Damascus to observe the uprising, a time which immoderate Syrians thought would ne'er come.

Reporting from Damascus, Al Jazeera’s diplomatic exertion James Bays said radical gathered astatine a hoops centre successful the bosom of the metropolis for the celebratory concert, marking 1 period of comparative calm and stability.

“There is simply a existent feeling of exuberance present precisely 1 period aft the autumn of al-Assad,” helium said.

“Outside this stadium you really person a ample poster of al-Assad but present you tin conscionable spot his hairsbreadth and forehead. The remainder of it has been ripped distant arsenic his regime, his service and the full apparatus … was ripped distant precisely 1 period ago,” helium added.

Bays said the proceeds from the performance volition spell to salient NGOs, including the White Helmets – the civilian defence unit that operated during the al-Assad authorities to rescue radical from the rubble erstwhile determination was bombardment by the Syrian aerial unit and the Russians.

In Damascus, galore Syrians were besides looking up to a caller country. “I anticipation the aboriginal volition beryllium better. There was nary beingness nether al-Assad. We were frightened of him and his army,” Nada Daye, a Syrian resident, told Al Jazeera.

Mamoun Nahlawi, a bookshop owner, said the economy should present unfastened up aft years of sanctions by the United States and different Western powers. “The sanctions indispensable beryllium lifted. Otherwise radical won’t spot a affirmative effect. People were humiliated during al-Assad,” helium told Al Jazeera.

Syria is among the most sanctioned countries successful the satellite and the country’s caller administration, led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, is trying to alteration that. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held its archetypal gathering of the twelvemonth connected Wednesday, focusing connected the matter.

Reporting from the UN office successful New York, Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo said the UNSC pushed for sanctions to beryllium lifted astatine the meeting.

Geir Pedersen, UN Special envoy for Syria, besides told the UNSC gathering that “working connected an inclusive governmental modulation “will assistance guarantee that Syria “quickly receives the economical enactment that it desperately needs, which requires successful crook a creaseless extremity to sanctions”.

Elizondo noted that Tom Fletcher, the UN humanitarian affairs under-secretary-general, besides told the UNSC that sanctions should not impede humanitarian enactment to the country.

In the upcoming weeks, a nationalist league to sermon Syria’s modulation to ideology is acceptable to begin.

Meanwhile, US officials person besides begun talks with Qatar and the United Arab Emirates astir relaxing fiscal restrictions connected Damascus, provided the caller authorities cuts ties with Russia and Iran, and offers governmental stability.