Blair's new initiative
Syria-UK, Politics, 11/5/2001

The Saudi daily Okaz issued on Friday said that the British prime minister Tony Blair carried to the Syrian leadership a new peace initiative.

The paper quoted well-informed sources that the initiative included a joint American- British draft project giving a vision for the Syrian- Israeli conflict and proposing a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Golan heights and UN forces to be stationed in the Negev and al-Hemmeh to the east of the Tiberies lake, besides organizing the process of both Syria and Israel use of the waters of the lake. The paper also indicated that the British draft project includes other economic perspective.

Meantime, the Qatari daily al-Watan issued on Friday quoted well-informed western diplomatic sources in Damascus as saying that the British prime minister Tony Blair proposed to President al-Assad a joint American- European initiative to revive the peace process and the negotiations on the Syrian- Israeli track for reactivating the Syrian role in co-operating with Washington and London in order to fight terrorism.

These sources explained to the paper that the Syrian side showed great interest in this initiative, saying it will be carefully studied by the Syrian leadership and then the Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara will carry the final reply to this initiative to the capitals concerned very soon.

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