Embassy of Syria, Bonn
The Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic in Bonn is the former embassy of the country to West Germany. Its current chancery was built in 1989/90, and was the penultimate purpose built construction of an embassy in Bonn before the transfer of the German government to Berlin in 1999.
History
Syria had a diplomatic presence in Bonn at least till, 1986, when the ambassador was recalled as part of a tit-for-tat move in response to a series of diplomatic withdrawals due to the 1986 bombing of the German-Arab Friendship Society.[1] The embassy cost US$7,000,000 (equivalent to $16,325,013 in 2023) to build, and was completed shortly before the vote to move the capital to Berlin in 1991, causing disappointment.[2] In 2017, it was announced that the premises would be sold have after spending a decade vacant, with the Syrian embassy in Berlin having finally given permission.[3]
References
- ^ Fares, Louis (November 28, 1986). "Syria Orders Out West German Diplomats, Military Attaches". Associated Press. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ Fisher, Marc (22 June 1991). "FOR BONN, A NOT SO CAPITAL IDEA". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-08-26 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
- ^ Bonn, General-Anzeiger (28 June 2017). "After ten years vacancy: Former Syrian Embassy to be sold". General-Anzeiger Bonn. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
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