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Jordan and Syria signed 11 memoranda of understanding (MoUs), executive programmes and a cooperation protocol on Monday, covering several sectors, at the conclusion of the third session of the Jordanian-Syrian Higher Coordination Council.

The signing ceremony was attended by Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi and Syrian Foreign Minister Assad Shaibani.

The agreements cover public administration and civil service, agriculture, civil aviation, education, higher education and scientific research, environmental protection, water and cloud-seeding projects, investment, railway connectivity, youth affairs and food security.

They include MoUs on public administration between Jordan's Civil Service and Public Administration Bureau and Syria's Ministry of Administrative Development; agricultural cooperation; and technical cooperation in civil aviation.

The two sides also signed an educational cooperation programme for 2027–2029, as well as an executive programme covering scholarships and reciprocal visits in higher education and scientific research for 2027–2029.

Other agreements address environmental protection, cooperation on implementing a cloud-seeding project in the Yarmouk River basin and investment cooperation between Jordan's Ministry of Investment and the Syrian Investment Agency.

The agreements also include an MoU on railway connectivity between the two countries' transport ministries and another on building the capacities of institutions and personnel working in youth affairs.

The two sides signed a cooperation protocol on food security, aimed at strengthening coordination and cooperation in this vital sector.

//Petra// AK