Syria expects U.S. sanctions to be fully lifted within the next few months and has begun restructuring billions of dollars in debt accumulated under President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, Economy Minister Mohammad Nidal al-Shaar said.

President Donald Trump ordered the lifting of most U.S. sanctions on Syria in May after meeting President Ahmed al-Sharaa, but the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019, which authorises them, remains U.S. law.

“We have to do some push and some lobbying to continue with this path that started in the right direction, and we’re hoping by the end of the year the bill (to scrap the act) will reach the president (Trump), and hopefully he’ll sign it,” al-Shaar told Reuters during a conference in London.

“And once that happens, then we are sanctions-free,” h

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