DAMASCUS (AFP) –
International police organization Interpol said it had reintegrated Syria back into its information exchange network, lifting restrictions imposed on President Bashar al-Assad’s government in 2012.
“In line with the recommendation from the General Secretariat headquarters, Interpol’s executive committee endorsed that corrective measures applied to Syria be lifted,” an Interpol statement said.
The move means that Damascus can directly receive and send messages from other Interpol national offices. These access rights had been suspended since 2012.
The statement emphasized that it was incorrect to state that Syria had been readmitted to Interpol as it has been a member country since first joining in 1953.
The recommendation to lift the measures was made following close monitoring of messages from Syria’s national Interpol office, it said.