Syrian Foreign Minister arrives in Cairo
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The two foreign ministers are scheduled to tackle bilateral ties between the two countries alongside regional and international developments.
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Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad speaks during a joint news conference with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Tehran, Iran November 2, 2022. (REUTERS)
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad arrived in Cairo on Saturday on a 2-day visit to meet his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry. The visit is the first for a top Syrian diplomat to Egypt in over a decade and another sign of warming ties between Damascus and Arab states.
The two foreign ministers are scheduled to tackle bilateral ties between the two countries alongside regional and international developments.
The visit comes a month after Egypt's foreign minister visited Syria and Turkey on February 27th in the wake of their catastrophic earthquake on February 6.
It is worth noting that Syrian-Arab relations have been improving after the tragic February 6 earthquake, which prompted countries in the region to send quantities of aid to Damascus.
Following the earthquake, Egypt sent five military planes loaded with emergency medical aid destined to assist rescuers in Syria and Turkey in treating the wounded from the powerful earthquake.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has likewise expressed his condolences to the victims in two separate phone calls with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the conversation with the latter being the first since El-Sisi assumed the presidency in 2014.
