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Jaafari will visit Damascus next week and meet Assad
Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari plans to visit Damascus next week at an official invitation during which he will meet his Syrian counterpart Walid al-Moualem and President Bashar al-Assad.
"Jaafari and the teacher are scheduled to meet on Monday morning in Damascus," a well-informed source said.
For his part, spokesman for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Mahjoub, that the Minister Jaafari will visit nearby Syria.
Mahjoub said in a press statement that "the date of the visit will be determined early next week."
On the first of this month, Minister Al-Moallem issued an official invitation to Jaafari to visit Damascus.
The call came during a telephone conversation between the parties, and a statement of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry that he touched on "the importance of further efforts, and security coordination to counter terrorism, and discuss the most important issues that concern Baghdad and Damascus."
The last visit of Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to Damascus in March 2015, where he discussed with the Syrian officials the file of terrorism and a number of issues of common interest. At the same time Jaafari stressed that "Syria and Iraq are fighting to advocate the terrorist acting by the whole world."
The visit coincides with the restoration of the Syrian army for most of the occupied territories in the country by gangs and terrorist access to the border with Alarac.anthy 1