The work of the Syrian-Iranian Higher Joint Committee concluded in Damascus, whose work was chaired by Hassan Habibi, the Iranian Vice President, and Abdul Halim Khaddam, his Syrian counterpart. Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian President, received Habibie and discussed with him the complications of the Turkish-Israeli military alliance and hostile movements in the region, in addition to the areas of bilateral cooperation between the two countries that were discussed by the joint committee.