EGYPT: SYRIAN PRESIDENT HAFEZ AL-ASSAD ARRIVES FOR TALKS WITH PRESIDENT MUBARAK ON THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS
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EGYPT: SYRIAN PRESIDENT HAFEZ AL-ASSAD ARRIVES FOR TALKS WITH PRESIDENT MUBARAK ON THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS
- Title: EGYPT: SYRIAN PRESIDENT HAFEZ AL-ASSAD ARRIVES FOR TALKS WITH PRESIDENT MUBARAK ON THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS
- Date: 8th May 2000
- Summary: CAIRO, EGYPT (MAY 8, 2000) (REUTERS) WIDE OF THE AIRPORT IN CAIRO SLV SYRIAN AIRLINES PLANE CARRYING SYRIAN PRESIDENT HAFEZ AL-ASSAD ARRIVING AND TAXXING ON RUNWAY SMV EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK AND WELCOMING OFFICIALS WALKING TOWARDS PLANE SMV CEREMONIAL GUARD SMV SYRIAN PRESIDENT HAFEZ AL-ASSAD DISEMBARKING, WALKING DOWN THE STEPS CUTAWAY CAMERA CREW VARIOUS, AL-ASSAD BEING GREETED BY EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK AND WALKING TOWARDS LIMOUSINE AND GETTING INTO CAR (4 SHOTS) SCU SYRIAN IDENTIFICATION ON CAR WIDE OF CAR WITH SYRIAN PRESIDENT LEAVING AIRPORT SMV GUARD OUTSIDE ITTIHADIYA PALACE WIDE OF EXTERIORS OF THE ITTIHADIYA PALACE WIDE OF MEETING BETWEEN ASSAD AND MUBARAK (4 SHOTS) SV MEDIA WALKING THROUGH PALACE WIDE OF EXTERIORS OF THE PALACE
- Embargoed: 23rd May 2000 13:00
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- Location: CAIRO, EGYPT
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- Country: Egypt
- Topics: General,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVACYXQQGHSM323VP7OHHW3MO4EG
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- Story Text: Syrian President Hafez al-Assad has arrived in Cairo for talks on Middle East peace with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
The talks, which took place in the Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo on Monday (May 8), were expected to focus on the latest upsurge in violence in south Lebanon and the Middle East peace process as a whole.
Syria, the main foreign power broker in Lebanon, has blamed Israel for the violence.
Israel has told the United Nations it will pull out its troops from a nine-miles (15km) wide zone in south Lebanon by July, with or without a deal with Syria.
Hizbollah guerrillas fired Katyusha rockets into north Israel on Thursday and Friday after attacks by Israel or its local militia killed two Lebanese women and wounded 12 other Lebanese civilians.
Israel responded by bombing two Lebanese power stations and the Beirut-Damascus road.
Israel-Syria peace talks have stalled over Syria's demand that Israel withdraw from all of the Golan Heights it occupied during the 1967 Middle East war.
At a meeting in the Syrian desert town of Palmyra last week, the foreign ministers of Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt pressed for the U.N.to take control of security in south Lebanon after Israel's withdrawal.
A U.N.role would ensure that Israel would have no pretext for retaliatory attacks against Syria or Lebanon, the ministers said in a statement.
Friction between Assad and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat scuppered Egyptian efforts to hold a mini-summit of Arab leaders last year, according to diplomatic sources.
Mubarak held talks with Assad in Damascus in January last year before Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak came to power.
The ageing Assad, who rarely travels outside Syria, met U.S.President Bill Clinton in Geneva in March, but the talks failed to produce any movement in Israeli-Syrian peace talks. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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