Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati Wednesday met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara to discuss further cooperation between the two states.
“We have agreed on a series of measures both countries will adopt [for better] cooperation,” the National News Agency quoted Miqati as saying in a press conference.
Meanwhile, the two premiers tackled the issue of the Lebanese pilgrims abducted last year in Syria.
“We have called on Turkey to pressure the kidnappers,” the Lebanese premier said.
In this regard, the Turkish PM reassured that his country was “making an effort” to solve this case.
In May 2012, 11 Shiite pilgrims were abducted in Syria’s Aleppo while returning from a pilgrimage in Iran. Later in the month, a previously unknown armed group calling itself the "Syrian Revolutionaries—Aleppo Province" said that it was holding the group, while the Free Syrian Army had repeatedly denied its involvement in the abduction.
