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Vendaval -> "Pelosi pushes Syria on Hamas, Hezbollah links" (4/4/2007 11:19:55 AM)
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"Pelosi pushes Syria on Hamas, Hezbollah links"
POSTED: 9:06 a.m. EDT, April 4, 2007
"Pelosi said she and her delegation "expressed our concern about Syria's connections to Hezbollah and Hamas" and discussed the issue of militant fighters slipping across the Syrian border into Iraq. "These are important issues not only in the fight against terrorism but important priorities for us for peace in the Middle East," she said. (Watch what Pelosi thought was accomplished during visit [image]http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/main/icon_video.gif[/image])
She said she brought a message to al-Assad from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that Israel was ready for peace talks with Syria. Al-Assad gave assurances that "he's ready to engage in negotiations for peace with Israel," Pelosi said. She later left Syria, heading for Saudi Arabia, the next leg of a Mideast tour.
At a meeting Sunday, Olmert asked Pelosi to take a message to Assad that Israel would be interested in peace if Syria stops its support for terrorism. Assad has repeatedly said during the past year that Damascus is willing to negotiate with Israel, insisting the talks must lead to the return of the Golan Heights, seized by Israel in the 1967 Mideast War.
In the talks with Assad, the delegation raised the issue of Israeli soldiers kidnapped by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and the Palestinian group Hamas and conveyed "the importance of Syria's role with Hamas in promoting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis," Pelosi said."
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/04/pelosi.mideast.ap/index.html
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