Al-Assad confers with US assistant secretary of state for ME affairs

Originally published January 22, 2003

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad received yesterday US. Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs, William Burns on the dangerous situation in the region particularly with regard to the Iraq.

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