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Iran"s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption]
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian and his Turkish counterpart Feridun H. Sinirlioglu in a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday discussed possible ways to boost humanitarian aid to Syria and assist with the peaceful settlement of the crisis in the Muslim country.
“Three issues of dispatch of humanitarian aid to the harmed people, campaign against terrorism and extremism and efforts to settle the crisis in Syria politically are in the focus of attention of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey,” Amir Abdollahian said during the meeting on Tuesday.
He rapped certain countries which speak in support of arms shipment to the terrorists or even military attack against Syria, and said such policies will increase violence, extremism, terrorism and massacre of the innocent people and will lead to the destruction of Syria’s economic infrastructures.
- Sinirlioglu, for his part, underlined the necessity for cooperation between Iran and Turkey to reach a political solution to the Syrian crisis, and said the two countries should increase their political consultations in different fields in a bid to find a proper mechanism for assisting Damascus with soothing the crisis and establishing peace and security in the country.
In relevant remarks in February, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Syria's worsening war poses a threat to the whole world and should be settled rapidly.
International strategy including "real intelligence cooperation" and withdrawal of all foreign fighters is needed to end the conflict, he told Reuters at the time.
Syria is becoming a risk for all European countries as well, "because of the presence of these terrorist groups …," he said.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs and terrorists against both the army and civilians.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed since terrorist and armed groups turned protest rallies into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
By Fars News Agency
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