Al-Assad meets with Danish FM
Syria-Denmark, Politics, 5/20/2003

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad received in Damascus on Monday Denmark's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Per Stig Moller, and an accompanying delegation.

Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara attended the meeting. Talks during the meeting dealt with the situation in the region particularly the situation in Iraq and the occupied Palestinian territories, the Syrian-European partnership and the bilateral relations between Syria and Denmark.

President al-Assad stressed that "war doesn't implement peace and stability but on the contrary it creates more violence and resentment asserting that the political solution is the way for achieving peace and stability."

President al-Assad affirmed Syria's firm stance that opposes terrorism stressing Syria's exerted efforts in combating terrorism. For his part, Moller asserted Syria's important and central role in achieving peace and stability in the region.

The two sides affirmed that dialogue and international legitimacy are the main ways to stop violence in the region and the world.

Meantime, Al-Shara held talks on Monday with Moller. Al-Shara stressed that achieving security and stability in the region depends on establishing the just and comprehensive peace on all tracks, which guarantees withdrawal of Israel from all Arab occupied territories.

Both officials expressed their mutual desire to develop the bilateral relations between the two countries, Syria and Denmark in all fields. They also pointed out that signing partnership agreement between Syria and the European Union will boost the relations between the two sides.

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