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Syria names ambassador to Iraq
Syria named its first ambassador to Iraq since the 1980s on Tuesday, two years after the two countries restored diplomatic ties, according to the state-run news agency. SANA said Nawaf Fares, a ruling party apparatchik, took the oath as ambassador to Baghdad in front of President Bashar al-Assad.Iraq has not yet named an ambassador to Damascus. Syria and Iraq restored diplomatic relations in November 2006, ending a 24-year break that followed charges by the Damascus government that Iraq incited riots in Syria in 1982 by members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood. But relations between Syria and neighboring Iraq remain tense, with the U.S.-backed Iraqi government accusing Syria of allowing anti-U.S rebels to infiltrate the borders. Posted by: Fred 2008-09-17 |
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