“Syria faces a hopeful but uncertain future,” said Kallas, who is making her first visit to the Middle East in her new post.
Syria’s new interim leaders had made “positive signals” but these were not enough, she said.
“They are judged by the deeds, not only the words. So the coming weeks and months will show whether their deeds are going to the right direction,” Kallas said.
“What everybody is looking at is, of course, the treatment of women and girls also, which shows the society and how it goes, how the institutions are built up, so that there is a government that takes on board everybody,” she added.
