Syria agrees to curb drug trade and return to Arab League in regional talks.
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Syria has agreed to take steps to end drug trafficking across its borders with Jordan and Iraq, according to a statement issued after a meeting of Arab diplomats in Amman. The foreign ministers of Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan met to discuss how to normalise ties with Syria as part of a political settlement of its war. The talks are the first between Syria's government and a group of Arab countries since a decision to suspend Syria's membership of the Arab League in 2011 after a crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
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