Mideast peace in 2008 unlikely due to U.S. vote: Assad
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said  achieving Middle East peace in 2008 looked unrealistic because  the United States would be preoccupied with the presidential  election.
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The White House said Tuesday the international meeting on the Middle East proposed by President Bush should not be viewed as "a big peace conference" and it's too early to say where or when it will be.
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President Bashar al-Assad of Syria made a rare, often confrontational foreign policy speech on Saturday, suggesting that the efforts by the United States and France
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Syria's president says an alleged missile deal that has angered Israel will not be discussed in Moscow.
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Declining to step into a war of words between Israel and Syria, the Bush administration said Thursday it was not discussing with Israel any possible military action against Hamas leaders in Damascus.
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UNITED NATIONS: The US signalled yesterday it wants a quick UN vote on a draft resolution aimed at preventing a second term for Lebanon&#39;s pro-Syrian president and calling for a withdrawal of Syrian forces from the Mideast nation.
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The Cypriot president said Thursday he was confident Syria had no intention of recognizing a breakaway state in his Mediterranean island despite a spat over a ferry that sailed to a Syrian port from the separatist region.
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DAMASCUS, Syria, Sept. 1 -- U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Friday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had promised to enforce an arms embargo on Hezbollah under a U.N. resolution that halted Israel's war with the Lebanese Shiite militia.
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Sen. John Kerry, on a Mideast tour taking him to Damascus for talks with President Bashar Assad, said Friday that the Bush administration's rejection of dialogue with Syria and Iran to try to calm Iraq is a mistake.
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Former US President Bill Clinton has ruled out the possibility of reaching a comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue and the the Arab-Israeli conflict within the next
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The United States signaled on Sunday it would invite Syria and other Arab states to a Middle East peace conference but suggested they must renounce violence and genuinely seek an end to the conflict.
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President Bush Wednesday warned Iran and Syria not to meddle in Iraq ahead of elections scheduled for January 30 and voiced new hopes of forging peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
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The vote left in doubt the fate of a bipartisan resolution opposing President Bushâs troop buildup in Iraq.
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Syria denied on Sunday that its President Bashar al-Assad had given his backing to any Turkish military strike against Kurdish rebels in Iraq, as tensions mounted on the Iraqi-Turkish border.
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The United States and Europe must talk to Syria and Iran if they want a comprehensive solution to Iraq and other Middle East conflicts, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Friday.
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A Syrian official source denied on late Monday evening the existence of any mediation carried out by Cairo between Damascus and Tel Aviv.
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Pointing to Lebanon as a stable exception in a troubled neighborhood, President Bashar Assad has suggested an end to Syrian intervention in Lebanon would lead to chaos there.