For the first time in 10 years, the Assad regime’s foreign minister meets his Egyptian

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his Syrian counterpart, Faisal Miqdad, in the first meeting of its kind in 10 years.

This came to Ali in New York, on the sidelines of the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly, according to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, in a statement.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said: “The meeting discussed ways to end the crisis in Syria, without details.”
The meeting is the first of its kind since Syria’s membership in the Arab League was frozen in 2011. Shoukry is the fifth Arab minister to meet Miqdad in New York, after his counterparts from Mauritania, Jordan, Oman and Iraq.

A statement from the Assad regime’s Foreign Ministry said: “The meeting witnessed a presentation of the developments related to the crisis in Syria and the importance of concerted efforts to solve it, respecting its sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity.”

The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, confirmed that the Arab countries did not agree on the return of the Assad regime to the Arab League, at a time when Russia is actively trying to pass its return to restore Arab legitimacy to the Assad regime.

In November 2011, the Arab League decided to freeze Syria’s membership against the backdrop of the Assad regime’s resorting to the military option, to quell the popular revolution against his rule.