Al-Assad receives Yemeni president, discussed with Lahoud, Salad Hassan Summit reults
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday evening at the Damascus Presidential palace received the President of the Yemeni Arab republic Ali Abdullah Saleh. The meeting was attended by Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam, the prime minister Muhammad Mustafa Miro, the deputy premier and foreign minister Farouk al-Shara and the ministers of education, state for the cabinet affairs and the minister of state for the People's Assembly affairs.
On the Yemeni side the meeting was attended by the foreign minister Abu Baker al-Qurabi, the chairman of the Yemeni presidency Abdullah al-Busheiri and Yemen's ambassador in Damascus.
The two sides reviewed results of the Arab summit held in Beirut.
The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh arrived at the Syrian- Lebanese borders on Thursday evening coming from Beirut in a visit to Syria. He was welcomed by the prime minister Muhammad Mustafa Miro and the ministers of health, education, PA affairs and cabinet affairs.
Earlier in the day, President Bashar al-Assad and the Lebanese President Emil Lahoud held a meeting at the Lebanese Baabda palace. The meeting was attended by Khaddam al-Shara and on the Lebanese side by the speaker of the Lebanese parliament Nabih berri and the prime minister rafiq al-Hariri.
Talks dealt with the situation in the region and on the regional and international arenas and latest developments in the occupied Arab territories.
The two presidents made an evaluation for the decisions adopted by the Arab summit and the stances taken in support of inter- Arab solidarity. Fraternal relations between the two states and means of supporting and strengthening them were reviewed during the meeting.
On the sideline of the summit, President al-Assad met with President of Somalia Abdul Qasem Salad Hassan Khaddam, al-Shara and several Somali ministers attended the meeting. The two sides reviewed results of the Arab summit as well as bilateral relations between the two states.
