Syria and Jordan sign a memorandum of understanding to protect the environment and discuss the development of cooperation in the local administration and municipalities.
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The Minister of Administration and the Environment, Muhammad Anjarani, signed, in the Tisharin Palace in Damascus, a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the environmental field with the Jordanian side, in the presence of Assistant Minister Youssef Sharaf, the Jordanian Minister of Local Administration, Walid Al-Masri, and the Minister of Environment, Ayman Suleiman.
The memorandum includes an exchange of experiences in environmental policy, protection of resources and biological diversity, combating desertification and land degradation, and developing environmental information systems and databases.
Areas of cooperation include waste management and recycling, environmental monitoring and control, emergency response and transboundary pollution, in addition to climate change, capacity building and the preparation of environmental status reports.
The memorandum establishes the establishment of a joint committee to monitor the implementation and prepare a plan for agreed projects, with the aim of turning areas of cooperation into feasible plans.
The two sides also discussed the development of cooperation in the areas of local administration and municipalities, and the exchange of experiences in a way that contributes to turning the results of the discussions into implementation paths.