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| | Foreign relations of Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Syria's relations with the Arab world were strained by its support for Iran during the Iran-Iraq War, which began in 1980. | | | However, Syria and Lebanon claimed that UNSCR 425 had not been fully implemented because Israel did not withdraw from an area of the Golan Heights called Shebaa Farms, which had been occupied by Israel in 1967, and which Syria now claimed was part of Lebanon. | | | This decision, prompted in part by Syria's need for Arab League support of its own position in Lebanon, marked the end of the Syrian-led opposition to Egypt and the 1977-1979 Sadat initiatives toward Israel, as well as the Camp David Accords. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Syria
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| | "Syria's Foreign Relations: Iraq" (March 2001) |
| | Syria and Iraq, which are led by separate wings of the Ba'ath party, have long been engaged in a fierce political rivalry. | | | For Syria, increased trade with Iraq is considered a critical element in reviving its stagnant economy. | | | The two countries, which severed relations two decades ago after Damascus sided with Iran in it's 1980-1988 war against Iraq, have rapidly accelerated the rapprochement that began in 1997 and significant steps have been taken to promote military, economic and political cooperation. |
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http://www.meib.org/articles/0103_s1.htm
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| | The EU's relations with Syria - Overview |
| | Syria was a member of the UN Security Council for the period 2002-2003, and strongly opposed the invasion of Iraq. | | | Relations with Jordan and to some extent Egypt and the Gulf states have been problematic for some time. | | | At the Arab League Summit, in Beirut, (March 2002), Syria, with some reluctance, together with the rest of the Arab countries expressed its support for the Saudi peace initiative. |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/syria/intro
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| | 92075: Syrian-U.S. Relations |
| | Syria's relations with its neighbors have been marred by border problems (with Turkey and Israel), disputes over water sharing (with Turkey and Iraq), and political differences (sometimes with Jordan and especially with Iraq, which is governed by a rival wing of the Ba'th Party). | | | Syria denies that it holds political prisoners, and claims that persons are detained only for criminal or security offenses; however, some sources believe at least 7,000 such prisoners were held as of early 1991, including over 2,000 in detention facilities in Lebanon. | | | On August 27, Syria's Foreign Minister said Syria is prepared to resume talks with Israel from the point at which they stopped in March 1996, but "not from the zero point," implying that talks must be based on the land-for-peace formula provisionally endorsed by Israel's previous government. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Syria - Foreign Policy - Regional Foreign Relations Syrian Information Resource |
| | Syria has declared that the Arab nations could extract maximum concessions from Israel only by acting in concert, a policy some regional observers refer to as the "Assad Doctrine." Implicit in the Assad Doctrine is the assumption that Damascus will orchestrate Arab negotiations. | | | Syria perceived regional politics in bipolar terms, dividing the Arab world into two camps: the rejectionist front of Syrian allies, and the capitulationists who advocated concessions to Israel. | | | In 1987 Syria's policy toward the superpowers and its Middle Eastern neighbors, as well as much of its domestic politics, continued to be affected profoundly by the Arab-Israeli conflict. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/syria/syria95.html
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| | Terrorist Organizations Syria supports : LA IMC |
| | Syria signed a free trade agreement with Iraq in 2001 and is the primary conduit for Iraqi oil pumped and sold in defiance of U.N. sanctions, thereby providing Saddam Hussein with a large source of illegal income. | | | According to the Council on Foreign Relations, Syria -along with Iran- gives the Lebanese militia Hezbollah “substantial amounts of financial, training, weapons, explosives, political, diplomatic, and organizational aid,” according to the State Department. | | | Syria's application of terrorism has been regional in nature and mostly against the country of Israel. |
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http://la.indymedia.org/mail.php?id=104755
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| | Asia Times |
| | Syria says that all oil dealings comply with the sanctions regime, which will govern the use of a new pipeline that it plans to build. | | | Syria believes that the crisis over Saddam Hussein's suspected weapons of mass destruction should be resolved through the UN. | | | Syria also says that it wants Iraq preserved as a nation, with no further suffering for the Iraqi people. |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DJ12Ak05.html
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| | Articles - Foreign relations of France |
| | The relations were strained for a short period in the late 20th Century, however, over the French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. | | | Another hindrance to France´s relations with the Arab Middle East was its close alliance with Israel. | | | This new orientation of French foreign policy also appealed strongly to the leaders of the Middle East. |
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http://www.ccomplete.com/articles/Foreign_relations_of_France
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| | Lebanon - FOREIGN RELATIONS |
| | In March 1976, as the battle was going badly for the largely Christian Lebanese Front, Syria moved to prevent its total collapse, using Palestinian units under its control. | | | Even so, some sources have ascribed to Syria a prominent role in aggravating the 1958 disturbances, claiming that it worked to unseat the Shamun regime. | | | By January 1977 about 27,000 Syrian troops were in Lebanon, technically as the largest part of the Arab Deterrent Force, set up by the League of Arab States (Arab League) in October 1976. |
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http://countrystudies.us/lebanon/100.htm
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| | IRAN NEWSLETTER |
| | Kuwait's Foreign Ministry summoned the embassy's charge d'affaires, Abulkassem Al Shahshaii, on Sunday to lodge a protest against the alleged meetings to discuss politics and Moqtada Al Sadr, who has been leading a bloody insurgency against the US-led coalition in Iraq. | | | Former Japanese foreign minister Masahiko Komura, who visited Iran as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's special envoy, sought Iran's cooperation in the reconstruction of Iraq ahead of the planned transfer of power to the Iraqis in June. | | | Iranian Foreign Minister, Kamal Kharrazi visited the city of Rabat, to discuss the volatile situation in Iraq. |
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| | Syria's Leaders - Council on Foreign Relations |
| | The assassination, which also killed more than twenty others, was blamed on Syria and sparked mass demonstrations in Beirut that forced Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon after twenty-nine years of occupation. | | | Although Hafez al-Assad ruthlessly suppressed the Brotherhood's political activities—most notably in a brutal 1982 crackdown in the town of Hama that left tens of thousands of civilians dead—experts say the Muslim Brotherhood is still Syria's most viable opposition party. | | | He was questioned for over fourteen hours by UN investigators and is implicated in Hariri's murder by the Mehlis report. |
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| | Despite the fact that relations between the Ba'athist regimes in Baghdad and Damascus were always strained, tyranny's collapse in Iraq threatens nobody in the Arab world more than the Ba'athists in Syria. | | | When I talk about some Arab capitals, it does not make sense to exclude Syria, which is the closest and at the heart of battles against invaders, because [Syria] is the heart of Arabism." Assad was true to his word. | | | As Baghdad was falling, Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Sharaa said his country would not stop volunteers heading to Iraq, via Syria, to fight U.S. troops. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_8_55/ai_100202153
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| | Bush to sanction Syria for aiding Iraq fighters - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - May 11, 2004 |
| | Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said there will be a "unanimous Arab decision" to condemn any sanctions in a final resolution from a meeting of the Arab League foreign ministers under way in Cairo. | | | The Washington Times reported last month that Syria is "facilitating" the movement of foreign fighters into Iraq, according to U.S. military officials with access to intelligence reports. | | | He said U.S. accusations that his country is not cooperating in the fight against terror are unfounded. |
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040510-113324-3006r.htm
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| | "Syria's Foreign Relations: The Palestinian Authority" (April 2001) |
| | According to the Saudi daily Al-Madina, the agreement also requires Syria to release properties and other assets of the Fatah movement that were frozen in 1983, estimated to be worth millions of dollars, and open talks regarding the thousands of Palestinian detainees held in Syrian prisons. | | | Assad and Arafat met for forty-five minutes in a secluded room at Jordan's Palace of Conferences, accompanied by Syrian Vice-President Abdul Halim Khaddam, Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shar'a and two Palestinian officials, Nabil Shaath and Saib Urayqat. | | | "Syria's doors are wide open," Assad told Al-Sharq Al-Awsat in February, "but meetings must have an agreed agenda." He added that Syria demanded the "full restoration" of Palestinian rights and "any coordination with the Palestinian side must be in this direction." |
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| | Oliver Kamm: Isolate Syria's tyranny |
| | Successive Israeli leaders have been ready to return the entire Golan Heights to Syria, but Syria has stymied agreement by insisting also on a small parcel of land that safeguards Israel’s access to the Sea of Galilee. | | | Against Baathist Iraq, sanctions were porous, ineffectual, corruptly administered and a public relations disaster. | | | No Israeli Government would risk its principal water supply by ceding land on its own side of the international border. |
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http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2005/10/isolate_syrias_.html
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| | The Head Heeb: New frontiers |
| | Syria now claims that the land is Lebanese so Syria has publicly abandoned the claim to the land which it once made. | | | No doubt HA would try to claim credit, but its claims would be about as credible as Assad's claim that he didn't whack Hariri. | | | If Syria cedes Shebaa to Lebanon, then it will be useless as an Israeli bargaining chip against Syria, and Israel doesn't exactly consider it prime development real estate. |
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| | Syria's destructive behavior - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED |
| | Burns told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Syria harbors "either the illusion that cosmetic steps will be enough to defuse our concerns" or "a misplaced belief...that U.S. engagement in Iraq and with the Israelis and the Palestinians will prevent us from pursuing a robust agenda with Syria." | | | Even before yesterday's attacks killed at least 15 U.S. soldiers in Iraq, the Bush administration had repeatedly demanded that Syria end the practice of permitting foreign terrorists to cross the border into Iraq to kill American troops. | | | While, at press time, the origin of the killers who carried out yesterday's attack was unknown, the senior U.S. official in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, repeated Washington's demands that Syria do more to prevent the foreigners from crossing the border. |
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| | In this paper, it is argued that Turkey's policy towards Syria has become hostage to the worldview of Turkey's governing elite, one that has demonstrated itself to be increasingly unable to cope success fully with political change on domestic, regional, and international levels. | | | Turkish foreign policy toward Syria has been shaped by both material and ideational factors. | | | Is Turkey drifting into a potentially dangerous rivalry without sufficient reason with Syria as a primary opponent? |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2501/is_4_24/ai_101531218
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| | NEWS AT A GLANCE |
| | "Such insinuations can only build the case for military action against Syria, which, unfortunately, is a very real possibility because of the dangerous doctrine of pre-emption created by the Bush administration," said Byrd, an outspoken critic of U.S. Middle East policy, particularly in Iraq. | | | "I have not seen any evidence that would lead me to believe it is the government of Syria that is responsible for the attacks against our troops in Iraq. | | | “The bill speaks of 'hostile actions' by Syria against U.S.-led forces in Iraq," said Byrd. |
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| | Syria - Gurupedia |
| | Seljuk Turks and the Crusades, Syria came under Arab control until 1516, when it was conquered by the | | | While nominally a democratic republic, Syria has been led by a military regime since a | | | Having been a cradle of Christianity, with the expansion of Islam in the Middle East in the 7th century, Syria became one of the centres of the new religion. |
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http://www.gurupedia.com/s/sy/syria.htm
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| | British Foreign office highlights relations with Syria |
| | He described Baroness Simons' latest visit to Syria, her meeting with President Bashar al-Assad, and her talks with Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara as good and positive adding that the talks tackled different issues including the situation in Iraq. | | | He praised the Syrian cooperation in combating terrorism pointing out to the positive Syrian stance which condemned the bombing attacks launched against the British Consulate in Istanbul, and the Syrian authority's hand over of those who have been involved in the attack. | | | He stressed the Syrian-British accord about the necessity of achieving the security and stability in Iraq. |
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| | SYRIA CITED AS KEY PLAYER IN IRAQI BUILDUP |
| | Anthony Cordesman, a former senior Pentagon official and senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Syria has been used as a conduit for a range of what he termed critical parts for Iraq's military. | | | President Assad of Syria calls upon Arabs to unite against the United States | | | Syria has been identified as a key player in Iraq's military buildup. |
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| | Syria |
| | Syria is a Middle-Eastern country that borders on Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. | | | Syria is a temporary member of the UN Security Council for 2002 through 2003. |
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| | Human rights in Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A state of emergency has been in effect since 1963. | | | According to the U.S. Department of State’s 2004 report on human rights, Syria’s human rights record remains poor. |
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| | European Report: EU/SYRIA: RELATIONS DEVELOPING NICELY, SAY FOREIGN MINISTERS@ HighBeam Research |
| | The EU's Foreign Affairs Ministers were pleased to observe a "slow but certain" economic liberalisation taking place in Syria. | | | They hoped that Syria would continue to pursue these reforms, in particular as concerns the private, public and financial sectors, as well as the protection of foreign investment. | | | Search for more information on HighBeam Research for. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:28856751&refid=ink_tptd_np
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| | Government Resources |
| | Syria Population (in Syria - A Country Study, Library of Congress) | | | U.S. Policy Toward Syria and the Syria Accountability Act (Submcommittee | | | on the Middle East and South asia of the Committee on International Relations, |
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| | Hexapedia - Foreign relations by country |
| | Foreign relations of the U.S. ArticlesThere are 97 articles in this category | | | Foreign relations of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
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