Syrian delegation heads to Tehran for talks with Iranian officials

TEHRAN,June 23(MNA) – A Syrian delegation comprising members of a contact group on Syria left the Arab country for Tehran on Saturday to hold talks with Iranian officials. The contact group in question was established to help defuse the two-year-old Syrian crisis through political channels after the Tehran Consultative Meeting was held in Tehran on August 9, 2012 with the aim of stepping up regional and international efforts to find a political solution to the Syrian crisis. The meeting was chaired by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, and delegates from Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, Benin, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and the United Nations attended the meeting.