CAIRO, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- The quartet of contact group on the Syrian issue met in Cairo on Monday evening, talking about activating an Egyptian initiative to resolve the Syrian crisis, official MENA news agency reported.
The quartet comprises assistant foreign ministers of Egypt, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
The meeting, headed by Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab Affairs Shawki Ismail, was held to activate Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's initiative aimed at dealing with the deteriorating conditions in Syria.
During the meeting, Egypt will work to reach consensus on a number of fronts of the Syrian issue, mainly halting violence immediately, rejecting foreign military intervention and upholding Syria's unity, said Nazih el-Nagari, a deputy spokesman for the Egyptian foreign ministry.
He added "it is necessary to launch a political process with the participation of different Syrian components to achieve Syria' s aspiration for democracy, freedom, integrity and multi- democratic political system."
BRUSSELS, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Monday repeated that the military alliance has no intention to intervene in Syria and called for a political solution.
"Our position remains the same. NATO has no intention to intervene militarily in Syria," Rasmussen told reporters at NATO headquarters. Full story
CAIRO, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi asserted Egypt's support to all efforts of Lakhdar Brahimi, joint special envoy of the United Nations (UN) and the Arab League(AL) for Syria, to stop bloodshed and political crisis there, official news agency MENA reported Monday.
"Morsi supports efforts of Lakhdar Brahimi to mediate in tackling the crisis in Syria," MENA quoted Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr as saying, following Morsi's meeting with Brahimi. Full story
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