Trump to meet Syria's president before heading to Qatar on his Mideast tour - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : The oil-rich country is also in the center of a controversy over its offer to provide Trump with the gift of a luxury Boeing 747-8 that the U.S. could use as Air Force One while new versions of the plane are under construction by Boeing.
63% : Trump said he agreed to meet with al-Sharaa after being encouraged to do so by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
62% : But Trump has defended the idea as a fiscally smart move for the U.S., even as critics argue it would amount to a president accepting an astonishingly valuable gift from a foreign government.
55% : Oil exports in Qatar began after World War II, though it would take until 1997 before Qatar began shipping out liquefied natural gas to the world.
54% : Trump is also set to attend a meeting Wednesday of the Gulf Cooperation Council, made up of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, before setting off for Qatar, the second stop in his Mideast tour.
49% : "There is a new government that will hopefully succeed in stabilizing the country and keeping peace," Trump said in a wide-ranging foreign policy address Tuesday in which he announced he was lifting the sanctions that have been in place in Syria since 2011.
47% : Trump has indicated he would refurbish the aircraft and it would later be donated to his post-White House presidential library.

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