Tomorrow (Monday), Jordan will host a five-party meeting of the foreign ministers of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and Syria. The spokesman for the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, Ambassador Sinan Majali, stated that the meeting comes as a continuation of the consultative meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, which was held in Jeddah on April 14. He said that the meeting aims to build on the contacts made by these countries with the Syrian government and in the context of its proposals and the Jordanian initiative to reach a political solution to the Syrian crisis.
And Western media reports had revealed earlier Jordan’s intention to present a joint Arab peace plan that could put an end to the devastating consequences of the Syrian conflict that has been going on since 2011.
Reuters quoted an official source as saying: “The Kingdom of Jordan proposed forming a joint Arab group to deal with the Syrian government directly on a detailed plan to end the conflict. He pointed out that the detailed road map deals with all the main issues and a solution to the crisis so that Syria can restore its role in the region and rejoin the League of Arab States, after its membership was suspended in 2011.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi presented the peace plan during a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, which he visited last February, in the first visit of its kind by a senior Jordanian official since 2011.
The Jeddah consultative meeting developed a road map of 10 items to return Syria to its Arab host, the most important of which is resolving the humanitarian crisis, providing the appropriate environment for aid to reach all regions, creating the necessary conditions for the return of Syrian refugees and displaced persons to their areas, ending their suffering and enabling them to return safely to their homeland.
Among those items is taking more measures that would contribute to stabilizing the situation throughout the Syrian territory, in addition to emphasizing the importance of combating terrorism in all its forms and organizations and emphasizing the importance of state institutions preserving Syria’s sovereignty over its lands to end the presence of armed militias there, and external interference. in the Syrian internal affairs.
Topping the meeting’s agenda is discussing a political solution to the Syrian crisis that ends all its repercussions and preserves Syria’s unity, security, stability, and Arab identity, and returns it to its Arab surroundings, in a way that achieves the good of its people.
