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11 Dec, 2006 12:54

Iraq and Syria re-establish diplomatic relations

Iraq and Syria re-establish diplomatic relations

Iraq and Syria re-open embassies in their respective capitals, restoring diplomatic ties after more than two decades. The countries severed relations in the 1980s when Syria sided with Iran in the Iran-Iraq war.

In Baghdad, a Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister said he was ‘very happy’ to have resumed normal relations between the two ‘brotherly countries’.

Meanwhile in Damascus, an Iraqi Foreign Ministry Under-Secretary said ‘this event marks the re-establishing of Iraqi-Syrian relationships’.

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