Qatar’s minister of state at the Foreign Ministry on Saturday held discussions with the new Syrian administration’s foreign minister on ways to strengthen cooperation between the two countries, Report informs via Anadolu Agency.
According to a Qatari Foreign Ministry statement, the discussions took place during a phone call between Egypt’s Mohammed Al-Khulaifi and Syria’s Asaad Al-Shaibani.
The call came a day after Al-Shaibani announced his planned visit to Doha this week.
The two officials discussed “cooperation relations between the two countries and ways to support and develop them, in addition to the latest developments in Syria, and the Qatari humanitarian aid efforts to relieve the brethren in Syria," the statement said.
Al-Khulaifi reiterated Qatar’s “continued support for Syria in all fields, especially humanitarian and developmental, to achieve the aspirations of the brotherly Syrian people for a decent life and building a state of institutions and law,” it added.