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DAMASCUS, August 8 /Standard Newswire/ -- A two-day conference on Iraqi security started Wednesday in Damascus with Syrian Interior Minister Bassam Abdul-Majeed stressing that his country had tightened its security measures along its borders with Iraq to prevent the infiltration of Arab fighters.
The meeting which grew out of a May conference on Iraq held at the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, at which working groups on refugees, energy and border security were formed.
Senior US and Syrian officials also met for the first time in two years at the May conference.
Wednesday's meeting - to be attended by representatives from Iraq's neighboring countries, the United Security Council's permanent members, the Arab League, Bahrain and Kuwait - is to see discussions on Iraq's mounting security problems, ways of increasing cooperation to prevent infiltration, and restore stability.
Both the United States and Iraq have accused Syria of failing to take sufficient steps to stop militants from infiltrating into Iraq to join insurgents fighting US-led forces and Iraqi government troops.
Damascus has repeatedly denied the charges, saying it cannot completely seal its long and porous border with Iraq.
Syria was a staunch opponent of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 that led to the overthrow of the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
