Al-Assad confers with Larsen, who will meet with Chirac tomorrow
Syria-UN, Politics, 2/11/2005

The UN special envoy Terry Rod Larsen will leave Beirut today heading for Paris in order to meet on Saturday with the French President Jacque Chirac at the request of the latter, before he will head to the UN in order to brief the UN secretary general with the results of his tour before he will return back to the region after one month.

Larsen returned back to Beirut from Damascus after he held "fruitful" meeting with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Larsen briefed the Lebanese foreign minister with the results of this meeting in Damascus before he had visited the Republic's Muftri Muhammad Rashreed Qabbani and the chairman of the Shiite Islamic council Abdul Ameer Qabalan and had a work dinner with the deputy prime minister of Lebanon Issam Fares. Today, Larsen will meet with the Maronite patriarch Nasrullah Sfeir at a lunch banquet.

Well-informed sources said that the main results of Larsen's meeting with the Syrian president during which a close door meeting was held including only the two men was that his recognition that Taif accord and the fraternity, coordination and cooperation treat between Lebanon and Syria are not in contradiction with the UN resolution 1559 and that positive steps are expected between the Lebanese and Syrian governments during the coming phase, all would push for the issuance of a positive report by Kofi Annan. The news also added that Annan's expected report will include remarks that the Taif agreement between the two countries are governed by international legitimacy and that their implementation will help the implementation of UN resolution 1559.

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