Syrian President Ahmed al-Shaara: This is a historic opportunity for Iraq and Syria after suffering for 60 to 70 years of coups, wars and sectarian conflicts. The companies we run today deserve an honest reckoning with ourselves. Enough of the wars. enough arguments. Enough endless debates about history and burdening the present with what we inherited from a past that neither we nor they lived.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Shaara: This is a historic opportunity for Iraq and Syria after suffering for 60 to 70 years of coups, wars and sectarian conflicts. The companies we run today deserve an honest reckoning with ourselves. Enough of the wars. enough arguments. Enough endless debates about history and burdening the present with what we inherited from a past that neither we nor they lived.