{"id":140133,"date":"2018-06-13T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=140133"},"modified":"2018-06-13T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:19:00","slug":"syria-iraq-discuss-efforts-to-reopen-border-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=140133","title":{"rendered":"Syria, Iraq discuss efforts to reopen border crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad, SANA &#8211; Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem on Wednesday sent a letter to Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari on increasing the efforts for reopening the border crossing between Syria and Iraq that connects the Syrian city of al-Boukamal and the Iraqi city of al-Qa\u2019im.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi Foreign Ministry\u2019s website said that the letter was delivered during a meeting with Syria\u2019s Ambassador in Baghdad Sattam Jadaan al-Dandah.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, al-Jaafari reiterated the necessity for coordinating the stances and enhancing cooperation between the two countries for solving Arab problems through adopting political solutions and non-interference in states\u2019 affairs.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, al-Dandah hailed Iraq\u2019s position in supporting a peaceful solution for the crisis in Syria, expressing the Syrian government\u2019s desire to enhance bilateral cooperation so that stability could be realized.<\/p>\n<p>H. Zain\/ Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad, SANA &#8211; Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem on Wednesday sent a letter to Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari on increasing the efforts for reopening the border crossing between Syria and Iraq that connects the Syrian city of al-Boukamal and the Iraqi city of al-Qa\u2019im. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry\u2019s website said that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,23,106],"tags":[15647,724,17926,3410],"class_list":["post-140133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-news-bar","category-syria-and-the-world","tag-crossing","tag-iraq","tag-reopen","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}