ENGLAND: SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER FAROUK SHARA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY JACK STRAW

Record ID: 947874

  • Title: ENGLAND: SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER FAROUK SHARA HOLDS TALKS WITH BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY JACK STRAW
  • Date: 18th October 2004
  • Summary: (W5) LONDON, UK (OCTOBER 18, 2004) (ITN - NO ACCESS UK/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet) 1. SLV OF FOREIGN SECRETARY JACK STRAW AND SYRIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER DR FAROUK SHARA'A 0.02 2. MCU (English) SHARA'A ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER A FORMER SENIOR MEMBER OF SADDAM HUSSEIN'S BA'ATH PARTY MOHAMMED YOUNIS AL-AHMED WAS DIRECTING THE SUNNI INSURGENCY FROM ACROSS THE BORDER IN SYRIA (A U.S. CLAIM): "Well, I've already said the names, separated from each other, they are well known in the Arab world, but when you put them together, I have never heard of this name. I think the whole story is fake and baseless." 0.52 3. SV REPORTERS 0.54 4. MCU (English) SHARA'A: "People ask themselves why the Security Council is involved in something trivial, so to speak, and ignoring something very serious and dangerous, something really threatening to world peace." PAN TO (English) STRAW ASKED WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT THE TORY CLAIM THAT REDEPLOYMENT OF UK TROOPS WAS BEING DRIVEN BY POLITICAL MOTIVES: "Like many Conservative comments, it is complete nonsense from the beginning to the middle to the end, utter nonsense." 1.49 5. LV REPORTERS 1.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Country: Syria
  • Reuters ID: LVA63W2G9NDEMG301WOAJKZR6E7S
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