Damascus, SANA-Prime Minister Imad Khamis underlined the importance of cooperation between Syria and Egypt to achieve economic exchange to the benefit of the two countries.

Khamis remarks came during his meeting with a delegation of Egyptian Engineers Syndicate, headed by its Chairman Tariq Nabarawy in Damascus on Friday.

Khamis spoke about the terrorist war waged against Syria to destroy it and sabotage its infrastructure, underlining that Syria insists to confront this war in parallel with rebuilding.

For his part, Nabarawy expressed the importance of cooperation with the Syrian side and achieving the strategic goal of strengthening relations and permanent communication between the two brotherly peoples.

He affirmed the Egyptian Engineers desire to work and cooperate with the Syrian Engineers Syndicate to meet the requirements of the next stage.

Nabarawy underlined the Egyptians’ support to the Syrian people in their war against terrorism to preserve Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The two sides affirmed that signing a cooperation agreement between Syrian and Egyptian engineers’ syndicates will be the first fruits of the cooperation between the two countries and will help reactivate the joint committees and the possibility of opening branches of Syrian banks in Egypt and a branch of National Bank of Egypt in Syria to achieve the economic interlacement between the two brotherly countries.

Earlier, Minister of Public Works Hussein Arnous affirmed the Ministry’s support to any cooperation between the engineers’ syndicates in Syria and Egypt that will contribute to strengthening the bilateral relations between the two countries.

The minister hoped that this cooperation will reflect positively on the two countries.

For their part, members of the delegation affirmed their support to the fruitful cooperation steps that will restore the common history of the two countries, highly lauding the Syrians’ steadfastness in the face of the fierce terrorist war to which Syria is exposed.

On a relevant context, the delegation met with Head of Syrian Engineers Syndicate Ghiath Qattini and heads of the Syndicate’s branches and discussed means of enhancing cooperation between the two sides.

They reviewed an agreement for cooperation between the two syndicates stipulating for developing the engineering work and setting up projects in Syria if some Egyptian companies wanted to take part in the reconstruction process in Syria in the future.

The delegation met Assistant Regional Secretary of al-Baath Arab Socialist Party Hilal al-Hilal.

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