Al-Assad gets telephone call from Bush, an invitation from Aznar

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Friday received a telephone call from the US President George W. Bush.

During the telephone conversations, the two Preisdents discussed the situation on the region, and prospects of attaining a just and comprehensive peace on the region on the ground of UN resolutions, and the Madrid terms of reference.

The US President expressed the readiness of the US administration to spare no efforts to achieve this objective.

The Syrian president stressed the need of treating the region's problems with objectivity and neutrality as well as having a direct knowledge of its problems and finding just solutions to them.

The two Presidents also talked about bilateral relations and methods of consolidating these relations in the service of stability and security in the region..

President al-Assad also received a telephone call from the Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar.

Views were exchanged on best ways to strengthen relations between Syria and Spain. Aznar informed President al-Assad of the special attention accorded by the Spanish King Juan Carlos to these strong and historical bilateral relations.

On behalf of the Spanish Monarch, Aznar extended an invitation to President Bashar al-Assad to visit Spain and to co-sponsor the opening of a Spanish exhibition under the banner " From Damascus to Cordova," which will be an important event in the history of Spanish- Arab relations.

President al-Assad promised to fulfil the invitation and expressed his thanks to the Spanish King and government for the interest shown to reviving the common heritage relations between the Arab and Spanish peoples.