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Jalal Talabani to visit Syria next month,
his party in Damascus says
28.12.2006
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DAMASCUS, Syria,
December 28,-- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will
visit Syria next month for talks with President
Bashar Assad on all "pending issues" concerning the
two neighboring countries, a Kurdish party said
Thursday.
Earlier this month, Syria restored diplomatic ties
that had been severed for 24 years with Iraq
following a visit by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid
Moallem to Baghdad.
Assad met with Talabani's envoy in Damascus, Fakhri
Zanganeh, and the two agreed that the Iraqi
president would visit Syria in mid-January, a
statement by Talabani's party, the Patriotic Union
of Kurdistan, said in Damascus.
Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa also met with
Zanganeh on Wednesday and the two discussed the
situation in Iraq, according to the official Syrian
news agency. No other details were provided. |
Iraqi
President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd |
Syria broke diplomatic ties with Iraq in 1982,
accusing it of inciting riots in Syria by the banned
Muslim Brotherhood. Damascus sided with Iran in the
1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. Trade ties between Iraq and
Syria were restored in 1997.
AP
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