Khaddam meets with Hawatemah

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine has announced that Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam received its secretary general, Nayef Hawatmeh, and discussed with him the situation in the Arab states and Iraq and inter-Arab relations.

In a statement, the front said that the two sides "stressed the grave consequences of the election policy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toward expanding settlements in occupied Jerusalem, the occupied territories, Lebanon and Syria and the possibilities of large aggressive attacks to win the Israeli elections."

The statement added that the two sides asserted the need to make efforts "to break the oil and economic embargo imposed on Iraq."

The organization added that Syrian Information Minister Muhammad Salman, and two members of the front's political bureau, Ramzi Raabah and Fahd Suleiman, attended the meeting.