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BEIRUT, Lebanon Syrian President Bashar Assad said in remarks broadcast Monday that he wants a dialogue with the United States but there should be no preconditions by the Obama administration. Assad told Lebanon's Al-Manar TV that the new American administration sent officials close to it to ...
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Changes Remember that time when it looked like
Obama's top advisers were meeting with Assad and telling...
him to drag his feet on negotiations until after the Obama inauguration? Syria spent a year desperately trying to cut a deal with Israel while ...
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Confirmed: Obama Surrogates Were Negotiating With Iran ...
blogs.law.harvard.edu - 2/3/2009
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From Michael Reynolds Origins of a cooperation. For
the past two decades, cooperative relations between Turkey and...
Israel had been one of the constants of international relations in the Middle East. While it would be incorrect to describe those ties ...
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Syria: We’ll take the original Obama deal
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... Barack Obama set the expectations during his presidential campaign, and now he gets to deal with the consequences. Syria’s Bashar Assad, one of five leaders Obama declared ready to meet without preconditions, says he’ll be happy to meet with Obama, but only on those terms : Syrian President Bashar Assad said in remarks broadcast Monday that he wants a dialogue with the United States but there should be no preconditions by the Obama administration. Assad told Lebanon’s Al-Manar TV that the new American administration sent officials close to it to Damascus, Syria’s capital, to ...
Syria Wants Those Talks Obama Promised….Without Preconditions
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Well, at least one country has taken Obama up on his offer to meet without preconditions.
Syria:
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in remarks broadcast Monday that he wants a dialogue with the United States but there should be no preconditions by the Obama administration.
Assad told Lebanon’s Al-Manar TV that the new American administration sent officials close to it to Damascus, Syria’s capital, to start such a dialogue. He did not name them but said they visited before President Barack Obama took office on Jan. 20.
Syrian-U.S. ...
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