The U.S. will remove all sanctions on Syria, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.

“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness,” Trump told a packed auditorium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during the first appearance of his four-day visit to the Middle East.

“In Syria, which has seen so much misery and death, there is a new government that will hopefully succeed in stabilizing the country and keeping peace. That’s what we want to see,” he said in a wide-ranging speech that focused on U.S. relations with the Middle East.

“In Syria, they’ve had their share of travesty, war, killing many years. That’s why my administration has already taken the first steps toward restoring normal relations between the United States and Syria for the first time in more than a decade.”

“The sanctions were brutal and crippling and served a really important function at the time, but now it’s [the new Syrian government’s] time to shine,” Trump continued.

“So I say, Good luck Syria. Show us something very special, like they’ve done, frankly, in Saudi Arabia.”

Trump is scheduled to hold talks with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, NBC News cited a White House official as saying.

Moreover, The National quoted a diplomat based in Riyadh as saying that Trump has agreed to grant the Syrian leader “listening time”.