"They have offered Garuda to conduct direct flights to Syria based on the freedom right," he said after holding a bilateral talk with visiting Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Dadari.
He said the opening of Garuda direct flights to that country was one of the topics discussed at the meeting.
The meeting also discussed implementation of Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement (GAFTA), Syria`s plan to implement infrastructure development with support of project officers from Indonesia and Syria`s plan to purchase helicopters from PT Dirgantara Indonesia.
"The Syrian deputy prime minister has already visited Bandung, the location of PT Dirgantara Indonesia and the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)," he said.
During the visit to ITB Syria built education cooperation with regard to its plan to build a petroleum university.
"We will immediately follow up the cooperation by discussing it at a ministerial level," he said.
Indonesia and Syria has set up a business cooperation council on October 13, 2010 as a forum for developing business network and exchange of information between the two countries` businessmen and investors.
The two countries` governments are supporting cooperation between private parties for the development of economic, trade and investment cooperation.(*)
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