CAIRO, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty held phone talks on Saturday with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib, during which they urged a political transition in Syria free from foreign interference.
The two ministers emphasized the importance of supporting the will of the Syrian people, preserving Syria's resources, unity, and territorial integrity, as well as the necessity of a purely Syrian-led political transition process "without foreign dictations," said the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in a statement.
In the phone talks, the two sides also discussed the need for presidential elections in Lebanon, a country that has been without a president since early November 2022 due to political division in the parliament, said the Egyptian ministry.
Abdelatty stressed the importance of reaching a national consensus to end the presidential vacuum in Lebanon "without any foreign interference," it said.
The phone talks came hours after Egypt dispatched its first relief plane to Syria after the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government in early December 2024. ■
