Syrian-Turkish security committee concludes meeting in positive atmospheres

The talks of the Syrian-Turkish security committee were concluded in "positive atmospheres," according to well-informed sources.

On the Syrian side, the two day meeting was attended by chairman of the political security department Lt. Gen. Adnan Bader Hassan and by the commander of the Turkish second army Gen. Etach Yalman, on the Turkish side.

Diplomatic sources in Damascus said that "diplomatic relations may witness in the middle of next month a great push forward" and that the two sides: "evaluated the mechanism progress" of the Adanah agreement signed on October 20, 1998 in "preventing any activity aimed at the security of each of the two countries and their stability from the territories of the other."

The diplomatic sources said the two sides "expressed satisfaction with the security agreement's progress" for better relations between the two countries and "strengthening them to also cover the economic level."