{"id":359882,"date":"2025-06-17T18:48:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=359882"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:10:29","slug":"foreign-minister-discusses-with-german-counterpart-urgent-regional-issues-and-bilateral-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=359882","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister discusses with German counterpart urgent regional issues and bilateral relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damascus, SANA- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Mr. Asaad Hasan al-Shaibani, received a phone call from German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, with both sides discussing pressing regional issues and bilateral relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the beginning of the call, Minister al-Shaibani congratulated his German counterpart on assuming his new position, expressing Syria&#8217;s aspiration to enhance diplomatic cooperation with Germany in various fields, stressing the importance of relations between the two countries in light of the rapid international changes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talks between the two ministers dealt with recent developments in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minister al-Shaibani condemned the Israeli infiltrations into Quneitra, including the demolition of homes and the uprooting of trees in southern Syria, describing these acts as a clear violation of Syrian sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The German minister, for his part, stressed the importance of finding diplomatic solutions that would contribute to achieving stability in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a new step to boost bilateral relations, the two sides also agreed to establish the Syrian-German Economic Coordination Council, which aims to enhance cooperation in the economic and investment fields and open new horizons for trade exchange between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opportunities to support reconstruction and development projects in Syria were also discussed, and the joint efforts to enable the Syrian economy to gradually return to global markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They underlined the importance of strengthening relations between Syria and the European Union, with \u00a0minister Al-Shaibani proposing \u00a0the possibility of developing dialogue channels between Damascus and Brussels, which would contribute to improving political and economic relations between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For his part, the German Foreign Minister expressed his country&#8217;s readiness to support diplomatic efforts aimed at boosting Syrian-European cooperation in accordance with international principles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of the call, the two ministers agreed to continue communication and coordination in the coming period, in a way that serves the common interests of the two countries and contributes to finding diplomatic solutions to the current challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The German Foreign Minister also promised to visit Damascus soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mazen Eyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Mr. Asaad Hasan al-Shaibani, received a phone call from German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, with both sides discussing pressing regional issues and bilateral relations between the two countries. 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