Let&#39;s talk to Assad
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Ariel Sharon should meet with Bashar Assad. Although Syria has not expelled the terror groups from Damascus, how could Assad be worse than Mahmoud Abbas, with whom Sharon is willing to meet, as Newsweek reported this week?
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The Sinn FÃ©in leader, Gerry Adams, has appealed for direct talks with the DUP leader, the Reverend Ian Paisley. Mr Adams was speaking at a news conference following yesterday&#39;s assessments given by the Taoiseach
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Sens. John Kerry and Christopher Dodd are due to meet Syria's president on Tuesday.
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Syria and Sweden discussed on Sunday means of boosting the bilateral cooperation relations and activating the agreements signed between them in the different fields of transport.
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Syria calls for a "serious dialogue" with the US as the most senior US official in two years visits Damascus.
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U.S. Senator John Kerry, the Democratic  candidate for the presidency in 2004, said on Thursday the U.S.  administration should talk to Syria and Iran.
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BEIRUT: In the first such statement since President Emile Lahoud said he would stand for re-election as president earlier this week, the White House on Friday asked Syria
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State-run media called Monday on the United States to begin a direct dialogue with Syria, a day after an influential U.S. senator said Washington could "bridge the gap" between Israel and Syria.
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Syria&#39;s President Bashar al-Assad and his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday held talks in Sharem al Sheikh. Before the summit, there were erports that during the meeting, Mubarak will offer Assad
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TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday he was willing to meet Syrian President Bashar Assad under &quot;certain conditions,&quot; an offer which Damascus swiftly turned down as unacceptable.
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As the U.S. debates whether to reach out to Syria for help in calming Iraq, some close to the Syrian regime say the country would be willing to help, but only if it got something valuable in return.
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"I've said several times... that it's time for Israel to make gestures which would show that peace is possible, including ending settlements"  France will have no more contact with Syria until Damascus shows willingness to let Lebanon end its long-running political crisis and find a new president, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday. via New Straits Times
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the Anglican Church, held talks on Thursday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the Middle East, Islam and terrorism, the official SANA news agency said.
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Syria and Russia, one-time allies driven apart by the collapse of the Soviet Union and brought closer again by American policies, both stand to gain from a relationship reinvigorated by Syrian President Bashar Assad's visit to Moscow.
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At the request of some of my foreign colleagues, I tried in the past few days to establish contact with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip to ask them about the IDF operation against their squads&#39; rocket attacks.
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President Bashar al-Assad, whose political survival was questioned a year ago, is now almost certain to be re-elected for a second term.
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In a direct affront to the Bush administration, a Democratic senator spent an hour Wednesday with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, asking him to do more to stabilize Iraq.