Before the start of the meeting, which will be held in a hotel in Amman under strict security measures, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi met his Syrian counterpart Faisal al-Miqdad, according to an AFP correspondent. .
Al-Safadi and Al-Miqdad discussed “efforts to launch a leading Arab role in reaching a political solution to the Syrian crisis”, according to a statement released later by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry.
This is the first official visit by a Syrian foreign minister to Jordan since the outbreak of conflict in his country in 2011.
Al-Safadi received the foreign ministers of Egypt, Sameh Shoukry, of Saudi Arabia, Faisal bin Farhan, and of Iraq, Fouad Hussein, before entering the closed “consultative” meeting room .
The meeting comes “as a follow-up to the consultative meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt in Jeddah”, according to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry on Sunday. .
In mid-April, a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries was held in Jeddah, in which Egypt, Iraq and Jordan also participated, to discuss the issue of Syria’s return to the Arab League, about a month before an Arab summit in Saudi Arabia. .
Arab ministers attending the Jeddah meeting agreed on the importance of playing an Arab leadership role in efforts to end the crisis in Syria.
A few days after the meeting, the Saudi foreign minister traveled to Damascus, in the first official Saudi visit to Syria since the falling out between the two countries with the start of the conflict in Syria 12 years ago.
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