Embassy of Syria, Bonn

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Former chancery of the embassy, 2014

The Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic in Bonn was 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. It is still owned by the country and used occasionally for events of the Deutsch-Syrische Gesellschaft (German-Syrian society).^{[citation needed]}

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Syria had a diplomatic presence in Bonn since at least 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 $13,866,276 in 2020) 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]

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Coordinates: 50°42′17″N 7°08′51″E / 50.7046°N 7.1476°E / 50.7046; 7.1476

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