The Jordanian Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday that the capital Amman will host, on Monday, a meeting of 4 Arab foreign ministers with their Syrian counterpart.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Jordan will host a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Iraq, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic.
She added that the meeting comes as a continuation of the consultative meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Jeddah on April 14, 2023, in order 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, according to the statement.
The Jeddah meeting discussed efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis and its return to its Arab surroundings, according to a statement by the Saudi Foreign Ministry at the time.
The meeting comes with the growing official trend of Arab countries to return Syria to its Arab surroundings, after two visits by Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad to Jeddah and Cairo in April, for the first time since 2011, and amid the start of Saudi procedures to restore consular services with Damascus.
Syria's membership in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League was suspended in 2011 over the regime's crackdown on popular protests demanding change. These developments come about 3 weeks before the Arab Summit in Riyadh on May 19, 2023.