Sudanese president receives Syrian party official

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir received in Khartoum yesterday Secretary General Assistant of Al Baath Socialist Party, Abdullah Al- Ahmar, and an accompanying delegation.

Talks during the meeting dealt with the bilateral relations between the two states and the importance of developing Arab solidarity to be able to confront the current challenges.

Al- Ahmar briefed President al-Bashir on the developments of the building process in Syria in the framework of development and modernization.

He also briefed him on the efforts being exerted by Syria to strengthening Arab solidarity and the contacts of President Bashar al-Assad with the European leaders and other officials in the countries of the world to explain the Arab position, prevent war on Iraq and expose the Israeli practices and continued aggression on the Arabs to the world.

Al-Ahmar expressed appreciation over the development and progress in Sudan and over the efforts being exerted by the Sudanese leadership to strengthen the Sudanese unity and peace on the basis of multi party system.

For his part, al-Bashir expressed high appreciation over Syria's national and pan-Arab role. He underlined that the standing bilateral relations between Syria and Sudan are considered an example to follow.