UN: Syria ready for talks with Israel
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A UN spokesman says Syria is willing to resume negotiations with Israel on relative UN Security Council resolutions and land for peace.
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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan reported that Syria has not pulled its forces out of Lebanon as called for by the UN Security Council, and said he had requested a timetable from Damascus for its âfull implementation.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on a   mission to calm violence in the Middle East, holds talks in   Jordan on Thursday before going to Syria to seek its help in   bolstering a truce between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah.
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Syria could attend an upcoming Middle East peace conference in Washington as part of an Arab League committee, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday that he wouldn&#39;t recommend to open negotiations with Syria when terror groups are operating there, Jerusalem Post reported.
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Israel ratcheted up its rhetoric against Syria on Thursday, hinting of possible military action following this week's deadly suicide bombing in southern Israel.
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The European Union supports Syria&#39;s  goal of regaining the occupied Golan Heights from Israel, the  EU foreign policy chief said after meeting President Bashar  al-Assad on Wednesday.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: Egypt supports Syria&#39;s offer to resume peace talks with Israel and will press the Jewish state to accept, a senior official said Tuesday after a summit
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan met Friday with the Syrian president to seek his support for carrying out a resolution that halted the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in neighboring Lebanon.
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President Shimon Peres on Thursday called on Syria to open direct peace talks with Israel, urging Damascus to drop its demand that negotiations take place through mediators.
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Following reports that Syrian President Bashar el-Assad is genuinely interested in negotiating peace with Israel, without preconditions, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom is calling on Damascus to take action towards such a move.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan, trying to calm Middle East violence, met Jordan's King   Abdullah on Thursday before visiting Syria to seek its help in   upholding a truce between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah.
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Fearful of being left behind, Syrian President Bashar Assad has been saying something quite startling &#151; that he is willing to resume peace talks with Israel unconditionally.
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DAMASCUS -- Syria said yesterday that it will buy apples from the Arab farmers of the Golan Heights, the first time it has traded with Israeli-occupied territory.
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Syria denied yesterday that it was forgoing Israel&#39;s commitment to withdraw from the Golan as a basis for negotiations. The commitment was made by former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Syria has indicated it is willing to allow the United Nations to take custody of the disputed Shebaa Farms area claimed by Lebanon but which is under Israeli occupation, a Spanish diplomat said on Wednesday.