SANAA, ( SANA )_ Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Ottri on Friday started a 3-day official visit to Yemen, during which he will head the Syrian side to meetings of the Syrian-Yemeni Joint Higher Committee.
Upon arrival at Sanaa International Airport, Ottri was received by Yemeni Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawar, Syria's Ambassador to Yemen Abdul-Ghafour Saboni and Yemeni Ambassador to Syria Salah al-Ansi,
In a statement to journalists, Ottri stressed strength and durability of relations of cooperation and brotherhood linking the two brotherly countries and peoples.
" Our meeting today in Sanaa comes in the framework of meeting of the Syrian- Yemeni Higher Committee which will discuss ways of bilateral cooperation and prospects for developing them in the political, economic, commercial, developmental and cultural fields and supporting the signed agreements by new agreements to promote the existing cooperation to serve the joint interests and enhance Arab solidarity and coordination to cope with the pressures and challenges facing the Arab Nation." Ottri told reporters.
In turn, Mujawar expressed Yemen' support for Syria's firm national positions, stressing the joint keenness on consolidating bilateral relations of cooperation and the common desire to develop cooperation in all fields.
" This meeting constitutes a basic station towards strengthening and developing
economic and trade cooperation relations and expanding its future prospects through signing several agreements in various fields and putting a news mechanism to follow up the implementation and interpretation all what agreed and will be agreed upon within the framework of meetings of the Syrian-Yemeni Joint Higher Committee." He said.
Ottri is accompanying by an official delegation comprising Ministers of irrigation Nader al-Boni, Economy and Trade Amer Hosni Lutfi, Health Maher Husami, Higher Education Ghayath Barakat and Culture Minister Riyad Na'san Agha and Deputy Foreign Minister Dr.Fayssal Mikdad in addition to an economic delegation representing the Syrian economic and trade activities.
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