Baghdad will take the initiative to host a meeting of several countries to discuss the situation in Syria. This was stated by Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein at a joint press conference in the Iraqi capital with his Syrian and Iranian colleagues.
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“We emphasize our support for the Syrian people by sending humanitarian aid, and Baghdad will also take the initiative to hold a meeting of a number of countries to discuss the Syrian issue,” the minister said.
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Hussein also called for “an urgent convening of the League of Arab States at the ministerial level” and said that Baghdad would “use all diplomatic means to achieve a solution to the situation in Syria.”
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“Iraq’s position is clear: the security of Syria and Iraq is linked to each other and to the security of neighboring countries,” he emphasized.
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On Tuesday it became known that an emergency meeting on Syria of the Council of the League of Arab States at the ministerial level will be held on December 8 at the request of Damascus.
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Earlier, a trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Iraq, Iran and Syria – Fuad Hussein, Abbas Araghchi and Bassam Sabbagh – ended in Baghdad, at which security issues related to the current aggravation of the situation in Syria were discussed.
