Shafaq News / Reuters reported, quoting senior diplomatic sources, that a meeting will be held in the capital Amman on Sunday, including Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Turkey, to discuss security cooperation and regional developments.
A Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters, in a news translated by Shafaq News, that the foreign ministers of the four countries will attend the meeting, in addition to defense ministers or military leaders, and the heads of intelligence organizations in the four countries.
The source added that officials will discuss cooperation in the fields of security and combating terrorism and organized crime, as well as regional developments.
This comes in confirmation of what was unique to Shafaq News Agency, on February 27, citing informed sources, which reported the imminent announcement of the formation of the strategic quadriple alliance between (Iraq – Turkey – Syria – Jordan).
The sources who spoke to the agency said that “the current situation and stage require speeding up the implementation of the tasks entrusted to the coalition by controlling the security of the region and preventing the movements of terrorist groups from practicing their combat activities, especially in the soft areas near the border strip connecting the allied countries or even within the cities.”
She added that “Turkey is trying to manage the coalition in line with its expansionist ambitions in the region, but Iraq rejected this and stipulated that the administration be participatory according to its strategic status and political and economic weight, because the tasks of the alliance are not limited to the security file only.”
She also pointed out that “security companies will oblige the allied countries to carry out their tasks in a real form through the exchange of intelligence information and the coordination of logistical and defense movement in an organized manner that achieves the desired goals,” explaining that “Syria will have a major role in dismantling terrorist groups at home, although part of it joined the interim administration in Damascus.”
According to the sources, “Jordan will have more than one mission, the first focused on dismantling the problems that may occur in the future within the alliance due to the overlap in some of its tracks, in addition to conveying reassurance messages to the world, as Oman enjoys wide relations.”
These sources noted that “Iraqi parties in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Interior, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism played a role in preparing important files and plans to be implemented to control the security of the region, and it is hoped that the quadripartite alliance will be officially announced after the end of the Arab Summit in Baghdad during the month of May.”
At the beginning of last January, Jordan signed an agreement with Syria providing for the establishment of a joint committee to ensure border security, during the visit of Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani to Oman, in which he discussed with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi the issues of arms and drug smuggling, Syrian refugees and economic cooperation.
Before that, Iraq sent intelligence chief Hamid al-Shatri to Damascus, and according to Syrian and Iraqi media, the meeting discussed the need for joint action to ensure that the Islamic State does not re-emerge.
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