Al-Shara confers with Qaddoumi on ME issues

Syria's Foreign Minister, Farouk al-Shara received in Damascus on Saturday The Political Department Chairman of Palestinian Liberation Organization Farouk al-Qaddoumi and an accompanying delegation.

Talks during the meeting dealt with the latest developments in the region particularly in Iraq and in the occupied territories.

Al-Shara stressed the importance of enhancing the Palestinian unity in order to end the occupation and to achieve peace.

Talks also dealt with the agenda of the forthcoming meeting of the Arab League Council on the level of Foreign Ministers which will be held next week in Cairo.

Later, al-Qaddoumi stressed that his talks with Foreign Minister, Farouk al-Shara concentrated on the "complicated situation in the Palestinian territories and the escalated Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people."

In a statement to press today, he stressed that the Palestinian steadfastness is the guarantee to end the occupation and to establish the independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

He pointed out that he discussed with al-Shara the situation in Iraq, the Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian coordination and means of enhancing joint Arab action.