According to the Jordanian Foreign Minister statement, Mr Safadi talked with Geir Pedersen about the rising threat of drug smuggling from the Syrian region to the Kingdom during their meeting in Amman.

Jordan has been at the vanguard of Arab countries pushing for getting normal; ties with Syria under President Bashar Al Assad, the issue that divided the nation and contributed to an endless delay in calling this year.

In a sign of division over Syria after about 12 years of civil war, Qatar hosted a conference of different strands of the Syrian opponent this week, tugging them for obscurity after years of the additional regional station.

One factor impacting the territory calculus towards the Assad regime has been an acceleration of multi-billion dollar drug business, mainly Captagon, flowing from Syria to Jordan and from Jordan to inner Arabia.

Arab security officials say the Captagon comes mainly from Syrian regime forces and allied pro-Iranian militias. They attribute the increased smuggling to reducing production costs over the past two years.

Mr Safad stated that Jordan worked with the United Nations to solve political issues to end the Syrian conflict and restore Syria’s role in the nation.

He also added that Jordan supported Syria in order to get rid of terrorism; however, details were not mentioned.

The Arab League suspended Syria’s membership in November 2011 in reaction to the regime’s crackdown on a revolt against fifty years of Assad family rule that broke out in March that year.

But Mr Al Assad’s ostracisation has declined in the past four years, and Jordan, with motivation from Russia, has primarily formalised relations with his government.

Officials have pointed out the economic benefits while recognising that drug smuggling has raised.

In January last month, smugglers who were operating from the border side in Syria killed two Jordanian soldiers in an ambush. After two weeks Jordanian army said they killed 27 smugglers.

The killing of the soldiers created concern all over the border site, and they were concerned about the safety of the soldiers who are giving duty there as a frontier.

The two killed soldiers are from the tribes that comprise the backbone of the Jordanian military