Al-Assad confers with Azmi Beshara

Originally published June 18, 2001

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday received the Palestinian intellectual Azmi Beshara. Talks dealt with conditions in the region, developments in the occupied Palestinian territories and the future of the ME peace process.

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