Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan underscored on Sunday the importance of lifting sanctions that are imposed on Syria, saying that keeping them in place can impede Syria’s development ambitions.Prince Faisal said that “unilateral and international sanctions against Syria should be lifted as keeping them in place will obstruct the brotherly Syria people’s ambitions to achieve development.”For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The top diplomat’s comments came during a statement he made after concluding the Riyadh Meetings on Syria.The Saudi capital hosted Arab, European and international diplomats to address the situation in Syria after the fall of al-Assad. Al-Assad was ousted last month in a lightning offensive after 13 years of civil war.Syria’s new administration has been urging for a lift of sanctions by the West to help international funding flow to Damascus.Prince Faisal bin Farhan noted that the attendees at the Riyadh