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Vendaval -> "White House criticizes Pelosi's planned Syria visit" (3/31/2007 1:18:10 AM)
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"White House criticizes Pelosi's planned Syria visit"
POSTED: 8:31 p.m. EDT, March 30, 2007
" Pelosi is scheduled to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad next weekend while in Damascus, according to Imad Moustapha, Syria's ambassador to the United States. She will be the highest-ranking American to meet with a Syrian president since then-President Clinton met with the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in 1994.
Pelosi is expected to address Israel's Knesset on Sunday. Further details of the trip -- her second to the region as speaker of the House -- were withheld for security reasons, her office said.
A statement from Pelosi's spokesman, Brendan Daly, said: "As recommended by the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan delegation led by Speaker Pelosi intends to discuss a wide range of security issues affecting the United States and the Middle East with representatives of governments in the region, including Syria." "
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/30/pelosi.trip/index.html
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