Bilateral ties discussed in mutual visits by Iranian, Syrian officials
ERBIL, KRG, Iraq (North Press) – The Syria’s national security advisor Major-General Ali Mamlouk held talks with the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian in the Iranian capital, Tehran, in tandem with a meeting that brought together the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s chief adviser for special political affairs Ali Asghar Khaji and Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Faisal Mikdad, in Damascus.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson said Iranian Minister Amir Abdollahian received, yesterday, Major General Ali Mamlouk and they both touched on the bilateral ties and issues of mutual interests between the two countries.
Mamlouk also met with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, who stressed the need to deepen bilateral ties between Iran and Syria at all possible levels, according to Iranian media outlets.
Raisi called for removing what he described “the existing obstacles” to expand economic ties in order to develop the current strategic relations between the two countries.
Meanwhile, Ali Asghar Khaji discussed, during his meeting with the Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Faisal Mekdad in Damascus, developments in Syria and the latest regional and international developments.
The two sides stressed, according to the statement, their rejection of any external intervention in the work of the Constitutional Committee since it is an intra-Syrian dialogue.
Khaji said that his country stands shoulder to shoulder with Syria in facing challenges referring to “the failure of the isolation policy against Syria.”
The Iranian official noted that holding both foreign ministers’ meeting and the summit meeting of the guarantor member states of Astana Peace Talks are now under follow-up.
Consultations continue between the two nations over the return of the Syrian refugees, holding the 7th round of the Constitutional Committee, and the obstacles facing it, according to Khaji.