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Iraq and Syria restore ties
21/11/2006 10:28 - (SA)
Baghdad - Iraq and Syria have announced the restoration of diplomatic ties severed 25 years ago and said they had agreed to co-operate on security matters.
"We have signed a little while ago an agreement to restore complete diplomatic relations with Syria," Iraq's foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari told reporters at a joint news conference with his visiting Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem.
The ousted regime of Saddam Hussein broke off diplomatic relations with Syria in 1980 in protest at its support for Iran in its eight-year war with Iraq that broke out that year.
Zebari said that Baghdad and Damascus had also agreed to "co-operate on security matters".
"There was an agreement to have meetings between security officials from both the countries and we also discussed developing commercial relations," he said.
- AFP
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