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Iraqi president Jalal Talabani to visit
Syria on Sunday
12.1.2007
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January 12, 2007
BAGHDAD, -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani
will travel to Syria on Sunday for talks with his
Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad to discuss
security, an aide said on Friday, and is expected to
ask Damascus to control its borders and stop
insurgents moving into Iraq.
"On Sunday the president will go to Damascus with a
big delegation," an official at Talabani's office
told AFP.
It will be the first visit for Talabani since the
two countries resumed diplomatic ties last month
after more than two decades of boycott after Syria
sided with Iran during the Iraq- Iran war in 1980s.
The spokesman Hiwa Othman said the two leaders are
expected to sign a range of "security and commercial
agreements between the two countries." |
Iraqi
President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd |
"It is not clear how long he will stay there," said
Hiwa Othman, Talabani's media adviser, confirming a
trip that Talabani had said on Wednesday would take
place soon.
Washington has accused Syria of allowing weapons and
fighters to cross its border into Iraq in support of
the anti- U.S. insurgency there. Syrian officials
deny involvement.
Talabani, who spent years in exile in Damascus while
opposing Saddam Hussein, said this week that he
would urge the Syrians to "prevent the infiltration
of terrorists" into Iraq.
Reuters
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