Oman’s foreign minister is going to Damascus to meet with Bashar al-Assad

According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, Badr bin Hamad Al-Busaidi, the Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Oman, will travel to Damascus on Sunday.

A source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that the Omani foreign minister will meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a visit to Damascus.

“Al-Busaidi will pay an official visit to Damascus tomorrow, during which he will meet with President Bashar al-Assad and Faisal Meqdad: Syrian Foreign Minister,” the source, who did not want to be named, told Sputnik.

“In Damascus, al-Busaidi will discuss bilateral relations between the kingdoms of Oman and Syria and bilateral issues with Syrian officials,” the source added.

Ahmed Abul Gheit, secretary general of the Arab League, also said today that the issue of Syria’s return to the union was not raised during a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Kuwait.

Speaking at a joint news conference with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Ahmed Nasser al-Muhammad al-Sabah, he said: “At today’s meeting of the Arab League foreign ministers, the issue of Syria’s return to the union was not discussed, but in general, the issue “We discussed the Syrian crisis.”

In November last year, Fahd bin Mohammed al-Saeed, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Sultanate of Oman, met with “Batina Shaaban”, the Special Advisor to the President of Syria, to discuss relations between Syria and Oman and ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation.

The visit of Arab officials to Syria has increased in recent months. UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed recently traveled to Damascus to meet with the Syrian president.

Last September, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Meqdad met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri for the first time in 10 years on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The official Syrian News Agency (SANA) recently reported that a security delegation representing the Syrian Interior Ministry attended a three-day Interpol series of meetings in Istanbul, Turkey. The Syrian delegation arrived in Turkey at a time when relations between the two countries have been severed since mid-2011, when the Syrian crisis began.

Turkish media reported that Hussein Juma, director of the Syrian Criminal Security Directorate, Yasser Suleiman, head of the Arab and Foreign Affairs Branch of the Syrian Political Security Directorate, and Hassan Talistan, head of the Interpol branch, attended the meeting.

The Syrian Foreign Minister also stressed the need to improve Syria’s relations with Arab countries during a recent speech at the Al-Wahda Press and Publications Foundation.

“We are working to improve and restore Arab-Arab relations to their former status,” the official Syrian Foreign Ministry (SANA) reported Monday.

Faisal al-Muqaddad continued: “We now have 14 Arab embassies in Damascus, and in recent days, messages have been sent to most of the foreign ministers of the Arab countries, saying that we have all lost so much that our countries are in a state of turmoil every day. [ بیگانگان تبدیل می‌شوند] And the state of the economy [کشورهای] Arabic is not good so we have as [ملتی] “Let the Arabs return to each other.”

The Arab League decided in November 2011 to suspend Damascus’s membership as the Syrian crisis flared up. However, since last July, Arab countries, especially Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, have been working one after another to normalize relations with Syria.

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