EU to activate Syrian peace ideas

Luxembourg's foreign minister, Jacques Poos, head of the European Union and currently on a mission to the Middle East, met with Syrian president Hafez Al Assad yesterday to present "new ideas," aimed at reviving the Syrian-Israel peace talks.

"We have news ideas which we will offer to our friends and partners in Syria and we hope to have good results" Poos told reporters before his talks with Assad. He did not provide any other details, Al Gomhoria daily said today.