Damascus - Syria and Turkey on Sunday reviewed the growing cooperation and friendship ties between them and prospects of developing and upgrading the existing relations in all fields.
That came during a meeting between Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri and Turkish Minister of Environment and Forests Veysel Eroglu.
The two sides discussed joint cooperation in irrigation and agriculture fields as well as the investment of available water resources in development process.
They stressed the importance of exchanging technical expertise to carry out irrigation projects and build dams such as dragging Tigris water to Hasaka Province and the Friendship Dam on Orontes River to avert flood threat.
They called for beefing up cooperation in environment protection and forest and natural reserves development.
Later, Assistant to Vice-President Hassan Turkmani met Eroglu.
The two sides agreed on activating cooperation in meteorology, forest fire control and biodiversity preservation.
For his part, Eroglu expressed Turkey's readiness to provide Syria with new irrigation techniques and cooperate in controlling dust and sandstorms.
By R. Raslan / Ghossoun / Zahra
© SANA (Syria Arab News Agency) 2010
