Jordan: A meeting of the foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Syria will be held in Amman tomorrow

ARK News... The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Sunday, announced that the capital, Amman, will host, tomorrow, Monday, a meeting of 4 Arab foreign ministers with their counterparts to the Syrian regime.

"Tomorrow, Monday, Jordan will host a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Iraq, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, with the Syrian foreign minister," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
It explained that "the meeting comes as a continuation of the consultative meeting of the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt, which was hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Jeddah on April 14, 2023."

This is to "build on the contacts made by these countries with the Syrian government, and in the context of its proposals, and the Jordanian initiative to reach a political solution to the Syrian crisis," according to the statement.

It should be noted that "the Jeddah meeting discussed efforts to solve the Syrian crisis and its return to its Arab surroundings," according to a statement by the Saudi Foreign Ministry at the time.

The meeting comes with the growing tendency of Arab countries to normalize relations with the Syrian regime, after two visits by the Foreign Minister of the Syrian regime, Faisal al-Miqdad, to Jeddah and Cairo this April for the first time since 2011, and amid the start of Saudi measures to restore consular services with the regime and normalize relations with it.

The consultative meeting in Jeddah did not come out with conclusions in favor of re-joining the Syrian regime to the Arab League, in light of the objections of Arab countries, led by Qatar, Kuwait, and Morocco, and the Western refusal to normalize relations with the regime’s head, Bashar al-Assad.

The Syrian regime's membership in the League of Arab States was suspended in 2011, against the background of the regime's suppression of peaceful popular protests calling for change. These developments come about 3 weeks before the Arab Summit will be held in Riyadh on the 19th of next May.

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