DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi has met with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, the Tunisian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Jerandi and Mekdad reviewed bilateral relations, the recent developments in Syria, and the path to a political settlement for the foreign-backed crisis, the statement explained.
This is the first public meeting between the foreign ministers in nearly nine years.