Amman regional consultative meeting on Syria releases concluding remarks
DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, Amman regional consultative meeting that included foreign ministers of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, and Syria released on Monday its concluding remarks including a bunch of terms.
The meeting comes as a continuation of the consultative meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, which took place in Jeddah in mid-April.
The concluding remarks yielded a group of terms regarding monitoring border, deterring drugs smuggling, as well as, others including the political solution issue, water, and refugees.
Syrian foreign minister and his Jordanian counterpart discussed on the same day border security and counter-narcotics issues prior to the launch of the Amman consultative meeting on Syria.
This came at a bilateral meeting between Ayman al-Safadi Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Faisal Mekdad Syria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates following the latter’s participation in the quadripartite meeting held in the Jordanian capital Amman, which discussed efforts to reach a political solution in Syria.
The statement called for boosting cooperation between Syria and the neighboring countries in combating drugs trafficking or smuggling them through Syrian borders in line with Syria’s Arab and national commitments in this regard.
The Ministers affirmed the importance of cooperation between Syria, the states concerned and the United Nations to crystalize a comprehensive strategy and deal with security challenges regarding border security and combating terrorism, according to state-run SANA News Agency.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said, “This meeting is the beginning of an Arab-led political path to reach a solution to the crisis.”
The statement revealed that Syria will cooperate with Jordan and Iraq to establish two different joint political and security working groups to determine sources of producing drugs in Syria, the parties that organize and carry out the smuggling operations across the borders, and take necessary steps to stop these operations to end this growing danger.
Jordan, which hosts hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, witnesses daily drugs smuggling operations through its northern border with Syria, it intensifies its efforts to monitor the border, holding Syria part of the responsibility.