Syria, Qatar's FMs meet on ME issues

Syria's Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara met in Doha yesterday his Qatari Counterpart, Hamad Bin Jasem Bin Jaber al-Thani.

Talks during the meeting dealt with the importance of President Assad's visit to Doha and the his discussions with Amir of Qatar, Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani.

Talks also dealt with the agreements which were signed between the two countries in many domains aiming at developing the relations between the two states.

The two Ministers discussed the latest developments in the region particularly in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Iraq. In a statement to press, al-Shara stressed the importance of President Bashar al-Assad's visit to Qatar asserting that President al-Assad and Amir of Qatar's discussions will deal with the latest dangerous developments in the region particularly in the Palestinian lands and in Iraq.

Concerning the presence of Qatari good offices between Syria and the United States, al-Shara stressed that it is not a matter of good offices asserting that the activating the Arab solidarity and boosting the bilateral relations with Qatar and expanding them to include most of the Arab states will lead to raise the Arab position in the world.