2023-04-30 22:08:24
An Arab ministerial meeting will be held in the Jordanian capital, Amman, today, bringing together Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Faisal Al-Miqdad, his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, Jordanian Ayman Al-Safadi, Egyptian Sameh Shukri and Iraqi Fouad Hussein.
The meeting set up by the Syrian Foreign Ministry in the context of following up on discussing a number of issues that were raised during the recent meetings and contacts, was considered by the official spokesman for the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sinan Majali, in his statements yesterday, that it comes as a continuation of the consultative meeting of the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt , which was hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Jeddah in mid-April, and to build on the contacts that these countries made with the Syrian government and in the context of its proposals, and the Jordanian initiative to reach a political solution to the Syrian crisis.
For his part, in a statement to Al-Watan, the Chargé d’Affairs of the Jordanian Embassy in Syria, Basil Al-Kayed, pointed out that the meeting comes within the framework of Jordanian efforts to find a political solution to the Syrian crisis. The Saudi city of Jeddah, and to build on the contacts that these countries made with the Syrian government, and the Jordanian initiative to reach a political solution to the Syrian crisis.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ahmed Al-Sahaf, pointed out that a meeting will take place today in Amman at a ministerial level to discuss the Syrian issue, and stressed that “Iraq renews its firm position on restoring Syria to its seat in the Arab League according to a political solution that enhances its security and stability.”
In turn, the official spokesman and director of the Public Diplomacy Department at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zaid, said that the Egyptian foreign minister went yesterday to Jordan to attend the meeting, which will discuss “ways to deal with the Syrian crisis, including strengthening the solidarity of Arab countries with the brotherly Syrian people in overcoming their ordeal.” .
Despite the indication of the official Jordanian statements that the meeting comes within the context of the Jordanian initiative, follow-up sources confirmed to Al-Watan that the meeting is for the committee emanating from the consultative meeting of the foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq that was held in Jeddah, and its importance lies in the fact that it “will take place.” In the presence of Syria, ways to strengthen joint Arab action and intensify contacts regarding Syria’s return to the Arab League will be discussed.
Archyde.com had quoted a Jordanian official as saying, “The kingdom proposed forming a joint Arab group to deal directly with the Syrian government on a detailed plan to end the crisis.”
The Jordanian official pointed out that adopting a “step by step” approach to ending the crisis and eventually returning Syria to the Arab League represents the basis of the road map that Jordan is pushing for.
On the 14th of last April, a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries was held in Jeddah, with the participation of the foreign ministers of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan, regarding a month before the Arab summit in Saudi Arabia scheduled for the 19th of May, where the ministers agreed on the importance of playing an Arab leadership role in the efforts to To end the crisis in Syria.
After the Jeddah meeting, Ibn Farhan visited Damascus on the 18th of last month, in the first official Saudi visit to Syria since the estrangement between the two countries with the start of the crisis in Syria more than 12 years ago.
President Bashar al-Assad received Ibn Farhan and discussed with him the relations between the two countries and other political, Arab and international files. Bilateral cooperation between the two countries was present in the talks in the interest of the two countries and the two peoples.
Ibn Farhan’s visit to Damascus was preceded by a visit that Al-Miqdad made to Saudi Arabia on the 12th of the month, and before that Egypt on the first of last month, and he later visited Algeria on the 15th of April and Tunisia on the 18th of it.
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