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🔹Advocate Ukraine-supplied wheat shipments and military servicing.
🔹Support sustained Syrian national and local dialogues focused on transitional justice. 4/4
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🔹 Develop an official U.S.-Syria business working group.
🔹Enlist the Treasury Department to help Syria reform its Financial Intelligence Unit and AML/CFT regime.
🔹Provide assistance on forensic drug testing and missing persons cases. 3/4
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🔹Complete the “full and clean” repeal of Caesar and State Sponsorship of Terrorism sanctions.
🔹Accelerate the process and conditions for reopening the U.S. embassy in Damascus.
🔹Call for the eradication of shadow governance.
2/4
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🔹Launching a Trump proposal for full peace between Israel and Lebanon.
🔹Expressing U.S. support for an Israeli military option to destroy Hezbollah’s remaining military capabilities. 5/5
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🔹Targeting Hezbollah’s power in the next parliament.
🔹Freezing implementation of Lebanon’s laws against normalization with Israel.
🔹Arranging U.S.-sponsored negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. 4/5
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🔹Guaranteeing that the LAF will receive more U.S. assistance once disarmament moves forward.
🔹Preventing weapons smuggling into Lebanon by sea, air, or land, including cross-border transfers via Syria
🔹Applying additional U.S. sanctions. 3/5
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🔹Continued U.S. leadership, which includes maintaining the CENTCOM-led ceasefire implementation mechanism and placing more political pressure on the Lebanese government to fulfill its obligations. 2/5
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM