Assigned by His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik, HH Sayyid Asa'ad bin Tarik al-Said, Deputy Prime Minister for International Relations and Cooperation Affairs, Personal Representative of His Majesty the Sultan received in his office here yesterday Dr. Faisal Mekdad, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic, who is currently visiting the Sultanate.

The two sides exchanged cordial conversations and reviewed the bilateral relations between the Sultanate and the Syrian Arab Republic. They also discussed aspects of the existing cooperation between them to serve the common interests of the two countries and their brotherly peoples.

The meeting was attended by Sayyid Badr Hamad al-Busaidi, Foreign Minister, the Secretary-General and the two advisers at HH Sayyid Asa'ad's Office and Bassam Saif Eddin al-Khatib, Syrian Ambassador to the Sultanate.