Abbas to meet with al-Assad in Syria in September
Syria-Palestine, Politics, 8/18/2003

Palestinian foreign affairs minister Nabil Shaath said that the Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas will visit Damascus in September.

Shaath explained following his talks with the Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara in Damascus that the Palestinian leadership wants to deepen consultation and coordination with each of Syria and Lebanon concerning the peace process in the region.

The Palestinian minister said that Abbas will meet during the forthcoming visit with President Bashar al-Assad. In a statement, Shaath described his talks in Damascus as positive, noting he had felt compatible view points between the two sides.

Shaath stressed that the objective conditions require cooperation between the Palestinian authority and each of Syria and Lebanon and ruling out any probability to compete over peace tracks.

This visit is expected to be a step forward to end a diplomatic row between Syria and the Palestinian authority. Shaath told journalists following the talks with al-Shara that he hopes a new era of Syrian- Palestinian relations would start in the service of the Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese conflict with Israel.

The Palestinian minister continued that his talks with the Syrian officials dealt with concentration on the importance of coordination and cooperation between the countries of the tripartite axis which Israel continues to occupy parts of its lands, which he meant Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.

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