Francois Senemaud, the personal representative of the French president for Syria, visited Cairo on Thursday, during which he met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri and the head of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Hafez said that the meeting between Shukri and Senemaud tackled the Syrian crisis and ways to push the political process forward in line with UN Security Council Resolution 2254
Discussions also focused on the situation in northeastern Syria. Shukri and the French envoy agreed that a security deterioration there does not serve efforts to combat terrorism.
Hafez said Senemaud lauded the balancing role that Egypt plays in Syria and stressed French keenness to continue consultations with Cairo on the war-torn country.
On the meeting with Aboul Gheit, Arab League spokesman Ambassador Mahmoud Afifi said that the French envoy and the organization’s secretary-general discussed the Syrian crisis.
Aboul Gheit told Senemaud that foreign meddling in the Syrian war has contributed to prolonging the crisis, said Afifi, lamenting that the ultimate loser is the Syrian people.
The Arab League chief called on the international community to exert stronger efforts to push the political process forward through the formation of a committee that would write the war-torn country’s constitution.
