Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has renewed his call to the United States to formally lift sanctions imposed on his country while visiting New York to attend the first United Nations General Assembly by a Syrian leader in nearly six decades.

Al-Sharaa led opposition fighters who overthrew President Bashar al-Assad’s government in December.

US President Donald Trump met him in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in May and ordered most sanctions lifted. But the Caesar Syria Civil Protection Act of 2019 authorising the sanctions remains US law.

Members of Congress have been debating whether to repeal the Caesar Act, which imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Syria under al-Assad. Some lawmakers, including Trump’s fellow Republicans as well as Democrats, want its repeal to be included as an amendme

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