Damascus, SANA- Syria and Indonesia discussed on Tuesday the importance of boosting bilateral relations between the two countries.
Speaker of People’s Assembly, Hamouda Sabbagh, received an Indonesian parliamentary delegation, headed by Fadli Zon, Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Committee at the House of Representatives.
Sabbagh hailed Indonesia’s stances in support of the Syrian issues and standing by the side of Syrian people to overcome the effects of catastrophic earthquake that hit many provinces recently.
For his part, Mr. Zon described the Indonesian-Syrian relations as historical and very deep, especially that Syria is one of the first countries to recognize Indonesia’s independence, reaffirming his country’s support for Syria in the face of the foreign plots and interference it has been exposed to for more than 12 years.
The Indonesian parliamentarian expressed his country’s aspiration to develop political, diplomatic, economic and tourism relations between the two countries.
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