Syria, Iran to enhance relations

Damascus,(ST)- Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali met today with the Iranian Ambassador to Damascus Hussein Akbari and his accompanying delegation,  The Two sides focused on ways of cooperation to provide support to Lebanese expatriates.

They discussed during the meeting, prospects for enhancing relations between the two countries, and developments in the region in light of the continued Israeli aggression against the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples committing massacres against civilians and displacing them from their cities and villages.

Dr. al-Jalali pointed out that the Syrian government, under the directives of President Bashar al-Assad, provides everything necessary for the Lebanese brothers who have arrived through rapid response and amending some procedures to facilitate their reception. The Syrian government also works to secure their needs and follow up on their conditions in their places of residence in coordination between various ministries, the Supreme Relief Committee, and the subcommittees in the governorates.

The Prime Minister clarified that Syria is open to any initiative that contributes to providing support to Lebanese expatriates, and it stands by them and its doors are open to them.  He referred to the family kinship relations that link many Syrian and Lebanese families.

The two sides reviewed the mechanisms of cooperation between the two countries to secure various needs and humanitarian relief and medical assistance for Lebanese arrivals to Syria, where the Iranian ambassador expressed his country’s readiness to provide various assistance in coordination with the relevant authorities in Syria, according to mechanisms that ensure the needs are assessed in order to ensure the necessary supplies are secured accurately.

The two sides stressed the keenness to follow up on joint cooperation projects with all care and attention was also emphasized in a manner that serves the interests of the two countries and the two brotherly peoples.

Nada Haj Khidr