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France appointed former French ambassador to Malta Brigitte Curmi as its new special envoy to Syria on Wednesday. France has not had an ambassador in Damascus since closing its embassy in 2012, but has maintained special presidential envoys to oversee the Syrian file since then. During the appointment of its previous envoy François Sénémaud in 2018, a French government spokesperson said that the move did not mean that France would “reopen its embassy.” France has helped maintain diplomatic isolation of the Assad regime internationally. In 2018, France, along with the US and the UK, carried out…