A meeting was held in Tehran on Wednesday between Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian, Syrian Assistant Foreign and Expatriates Minister Ahmad Arnous, and Vice-Director and delegate for humanitarian aid at Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) Manuel Bessler, in which they discussed the latest developments in Syria and means to deliver humanitarian aid to Syrian people, in addition to discussing inter-Syrian dialogue and developments in the region, SANA reported.
In a relevant context, Abdullahian said Saudi Arabia’s decision to sever relations with Iran will affect inter-Syria talks, but Tehran is committed to these talks and will spare no efforts to go ahead with negotiations with UN officials and the Syrian government and hopes that the Saudi government will learn required lesson from history, describing the Saudi decision as an “irrational and unwise decision.”
A similar Syrian-Iranian-Swiss meeting was held in September 2015 in Tehran to discuss coordination about the humanitarian aid for the Syrian people, and that time Syria was represented by Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad.