AMMAN — Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Al-Safadi is set to
attend a ministerial "consultative" meeting hosted by Saudi Arabia in
Jeddah, where Jordan will be pushing a joint Arab peace plan to end the
Syrian conflict.
اضافة اعلان
The meeting, which will include
GCC member countries, Iraq, Jordan
and Egypt, is intended to discuss Syria’s readmission to the Arab League, according
to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
Joint Arab group
Before the meeting, Jordan announced that it would push for a joint
Arab group to engage the Syrian government on a detailed plan to end the
conflict, according to Reuters.
An official, who requested anonymity, told Reuters that the
proposed roadmap would address all key issues and offer a detailed plan for
solving the crisis.
The official added that the goal was for
Syria to restore its role in the region and rejoin the Arab League.
Previous meetings
In February, Safadi raised the peace plan with Syrian President
Bashar Al-Assad during his visit to Damascus, the first such visit by a senior
Jordanian official since the Syrian conflict began.
Abu Dhabi and Oman have also recently received Assad as
normalization gathered momentum elsewhere in the region following a devastating
quake that hit Turkey and Syria.
The consultative meeting in Jeddah comes two days after Syrian
Foreign Minister Faisal Al-Mekdad
visited Saudi Arabia and met with Saudi
Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah.
The visit marked the first time a senior Syrian diplomat has been
to the kingdom in over a decade. In a joint statement following the meeting,
Saudi Arabia and Syria announced that they were moving towards reopening
embassies in their respective capitals and resuming flights between the two
countries for the
first time in over a decade.
Saudi Arabia's invitation to Assad
Reuters had reported in early April that Saudi Arabia is
considering extending an invitation to Assad to attend the upcoming Arab
Summit, which Saudi Arabia will host in Riyadh on 19 May.
Syria was suspended from the Arab League in response to Assad’s
brutal crackdown on protests.
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