As part of the first foreign minister-level visit from Saudi Arabia to Syria in 12 years, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Ferhan met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Having severed diplomatic ties with Syria after the civil war that broke out in 2011, Saudi Arabia made its first foreign ministerial visit to Syria in 12 years.
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
In a statement made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, it was stated that the visit was made with the aim of finding a political solution to the conflict in Syria that would "preserve the Arab identity and return it to the Arab environment".
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, on the other hand, went to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia last week, and met with the Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as well as his Egyptian, Jordanian and Iraqi counterparts.
Sources familiar with the talks said that Saudi Arabia and Syria agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and that Assad would be invited to the Arab League's meeting, which will be held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, on May 19.
(Ihlas News Agency)
