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| Khatami to visit Syria and Lebanon |
| 2003-04-08 |
| President Mohammad Khatami will travel to Syria and Lebanon early May. "Khatami will travel to Syria and Lebanon in order to fine tune his country's stance with those of Syria and Lebanon regarding the prevailing developments in the region," SPA said. The Iranian president's visit to Lebanon has been called off several times. Khatami last visited that country in 1997 before coming to power the same year. He visited Syria in May, 1999 on a Middle East tour, which also took him to Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad paid a lightening visit to Tehran in March this year to discuss the Iraq crisis. Now they can discuss what they're going to do in the aftermath of it... Syria was the only Arab country which backed the Islamic Republic in the Iraqi-imposed war of 1980-1988. While their political ties are steady, the two countries' economic relations are not significant. The two countries also have a common cause for concern, which they share with Turkey, regarding the Kurdish question. Both Iranian and Turkish officials have stressed in recent weeks the need for the three countries, which have Kurdish communities on their territories, for holding joint consultations as the US-led war in Iraq takes a sensitive turn with Iraqi Kurds being on the spotlight. The Kurds are going to represent a fine club with which to occasionally whack all three countries. They seem to be better at setting up governments and governing their territory than at least two of them. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Are the wheels coming off the axis, er I mean axle? |
| Posted by: PD 2003-04-08 23:31:19 |
| #2 "Khatami will travel to Syria ...........The Iranian president's visit to Lebanon has been called off several times. Will there be a Syria to visit in May? dorf |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-08 11:42:28 |
| #1 How's he plan on getting there, by boat? The airspace might be a bit congested in certain spots. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-08 11:40:10 |