President Assad Held Talks with His Egyptian Counterpart

Damascus 15-1-2001

President Bashar Assad voiced the hope that the New US Administration would be ' serious' and ' active' as to reactivate Mideast strangling peace process and as to repair the damages inflicted previously on the process.

" The US Administration has to rebuild the almost lost Arab citizen trust whether in Israel or in the way of handling the process of peace by concerned countries,'' President Assad underlined in a joint press conference here Monday with his visiting Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak.

President Assad urged the US to halt its biased measures in favor of Israel and to stand biased to related UN Security Council resolutions and the peace process basics and principles.

In reply to a question, President Assad blasted the Israeli policy of threats against Arabs and the region as a whole as a ' bid to export the Israeli domestic problems abroad'.

"The Israeli threats with war mean an aggression. The Israeli aggression, however, ever takes place on a daily basis in different regions of the Arab World.'' President Assad said.

In reply to another question, His Excellency reiterated Syria's ever adherence and work for Arab solidarity and joint actions. "Syria has been the pioneering in calling for coordination among all tracks of peace. Syria does ever stand with Arab coordination.'' noting to the ongoing contacts with Palestinian officials to this effect.

His Excellency President Bashar Hafez Assad held talks earlier Monday with the visiting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on the Israeli-created critical conditions through its denial of Mideast peace process, its references, and what was previously realized. The talks, furthermore, focused at the Israeli continued aggressions against the Palestinian people, sacred shrines and sanctities, and at the Israeli persistent threats against Arab countries. The standing tasks and responsibilities to be shouldered by Arab countries were dealt with considering the pivotal importance of
coordination among Arabs under the current conditions.

Both Presidents, in two meetings, one a closed door meeting, reviewed ongoing contacts at the Arab and international levels, where viewpoints were exchanged in this regard.

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