Minister of Environment and Local Government Hilal Al-atrash of Syria

Damascus, (SANA) Minister of Local Administration and Environment Hilal al-Atrash met on Wednesday with a French delegation representing companies specializing in construction, drinking water management, waste management and sea water desalination, discussing with the delegation members the possibility of cooperation in establishing projects in Syria and developing work relations between the two sides.

Minister al-Atrash expressed his Ministry' readiness to work with these companies, reviewing the various venues of cooperation with the French companies, which include the aforementioned fields in addition to managing marine disasters, pollution from waste disposal station and industrial pollution.

The Syrian minister of local administration Hilal al-Atrash said that Syria "notified the UN agencies its readiness to receive Iraqi refugees.

Local Administration Minister Hilal al-Atrash said "women took 319 of the 9,687 seats being contested, against 294 in 2003.

Local Administration and Environment Minister Hilal al-Atrash said the cause was unknown but residents speculated a power line caused the fire.

Al-Atrash expressed his government's gratitude for Turkey which sent firefighters and aircraft to fight the blazes that broke out about 20 km away from the border.

environment, water resources, sewage, renewable energies and wastes.

Later, Minister of Local Administration and Environment Hilal al-Atrash discussed with the Iraqi Minister means for developing relations between the two ministries through the activation of the environmental cooperation agreement signed by the two countries.

Minister of Local Administration and Environment Hilal al-Atrash discussed with a delegation of the European Investment Bank ways of boosting the cooperation and possibility of financing a set of small and big size projects in Damascus and its countryside.

Syrian Minister of Local Administration and Environment Hilal al-Atrash was issued resolution No.