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A high-ranking Syrian delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in the first foreign visit for the country’s new Islamist rulers since they ousted president Bashar al-Assad last month, state media said.
“An official Syrian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Assaad al-Shibani, Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra and General Intelligence Service chief Anas Khattab arrives in the Saudi capital Riyadh on the first official foreign visit at the invitation of the Saudi foreign minister,” the official SANA news agency reported, quoting a foreign ministry source.