Damascus meeting on Iraq failed to reach significant decisionsnote

Iraq’s neighbors held a two-day meeting in Damascus to discuss Iraq-related security issues. The following 350-word article tells why the participants failed to reach significant decisions, what the Iraqi delegation wanted to discuss and what Iran, Syria and Turkey wanted to discuss too. It also tells what the Iranian delegate Mohammad-Jalal Firouznai told the Iraqi delegate Labid Abawi on the sidelines of the meeting.