Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met on Wednesday with his Egyptian and Turkish counterparts and discussed the current crisis in Syria.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met on Wednesday with his Egyptian and Turkish counterparts and discussed the current crisis in Syria.
Ahmadinejad, Mohamad Mursi and Abdullah Gul proposed several initiatives and discussed various issues related to solving the Syrian crisis, but they were all agreed on the point that the massacres and bloodshed there needed to end immediately, media reported.
The trilateral meeting, which lasted for more than an hour, was n the sidelines of the two-day summit of heads of state and government of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which opened on Wednesday.
According to IRNA, the three political leaders at the meeting commissioned the three countries foreign ministers to have a series of meetings to sum up the discussed issues and present them to the concerned parties and officials in Syria so that the crisis and bloodshed there would hopefully come to an end.
President Ahmadinejad later described the trilateral meeting as “positive.”
Egyptian presidential spokesman Yasser Ali announced the meeting, noting that Saudi Arabia's Deputy Prime Minister Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz did not attend the meeting.
Egypt, Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia formed a quartet committee known as "the contact group" to help resolve the Syrian crisis.
On December 16, Iran unveiled the details of a six-point plan to resolve the ongoing crisis in Syria, which calls for an immediate end to all violent and armed acts.
The plan calls for sending humanitarian aid to the Syrians following the end of all conflicts, lifting all economic sanctions imposed against the country, and facilitating the return of displaced Syrians to their homes.