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.

Former chancery of the embassy, 2014

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 $15,679,572 in 2022) 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
  1. Fares, Louis (November 28, 1986). "Syria Orders Out West German Diplomats, Military Attaches". Associated Press. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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