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Syria weighing whether to join Makkah pact: foreign minister
Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani on Saturday said Damascus was considering whether to join the Makkah defence pact that binds Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye. The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, signed on Aug 7, empowers the three members to consider an armed attack on one member an attack on all. “Discussions are currently underway to evaluate Syria’s entry into the Makkah alliance,” Al Shaibani said at the Manama Dialogue conference in Bahrain. According to Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), speaking about the ongoing regional conflicts, the foreign minister expressed Damascus’s su