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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria will send its deputy foreign minister to the
U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, Md. because the issue
of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has been added to the agenda, the
state-run news agency said Sunday.
The agency, SANA, said Syria will be represented at the conference by Deputy
Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad. The decision was made "after the Syria track
was added to the conference agenda," the agency said.
Syria had said it will attend only if the conference discusses the Golan
Heights, the strategic plateau captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war
and later annexed.
A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel saw the
announcement as a positive development.
"The meetings are clearly about the Israeli-Palestinian process, but could
be the beginning of new avenues to peace in the Middle East," spokeswoman
Miri Eisin said.
Broad Arab attendance at the Annapolis summit was a key goal for the U.S.,
which is hoping that could help bring about an Israeli-Palestinian peace
deal.
Syria did not explain why it will not be sending its foreign minister, like
other Arab participants, but the decision appears to indicate that it is not
entirely confident the conference will address its concerns over the Golan
Heights.
En route to Washington, Olmert said before Syria's announcement that Israel
would "favorably" consider negotiations with Syria if conditions ripen.
Israel wants Syria to break out of Iran's orbit and stop harboring
Palestinian and Lebanese militants opposed to the Jewish state's existence.
Nearly 50 nations and organizations are set to attend the summit. Iran has
not been invited.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said before the Syrian announcement
that the peace conference would only serve the interests of Israel, the
official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
"The peace conference has no benefit for the oppressed Palestinian nation.
It is only for supporting the Zionists occupiers," Ahmadinejad said.
"Participation in this summit is an indication of the lack of intelligence
of some so-called politicians," he said, accusing the participants of giving
concessions to the "Zionists."
"I am sorry that some people around us plan to participate in the
conference, which like its previous ones will not have any benefit,"
Ahmadinejad added.
Iran is a primary backer of Hamas, the militant group that seized the Gaza
Strip from moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement in
June. Tehran says its support to Palestinians groups is limited to
humanitarian aide.
Ahmadinejad is famous for his anti-Israel rhetoric. Since 2005, his calls
for the disappearance of the Jewish state have prompted international
criticism.
Fear over Shiite Iran's growing influence and regional ambitions may have
helped push largely Sunni Arab states and the Israelis toward stronger peace
efforts.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that Arab participants in the
conference, which begins Monday night in Washington, then moves to
Annapolis, should not expect to dictate the contours of Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations.
On the plane carrying Livni and Olmert to the U.S., Livni suggested that a
lack of Arab backing contributed to the failure of the last round of
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which broke down in bloodshed in early
2001. The Arab world, she said, "should stop sitting on the fence."
"There isn't a single Palestinian who can reach an agreement without Arab
support," she said. "That's one of the lessons we learned seven years ago."
But she also said that "it is not the role of the Arab world to define the
terms of the negotiations or take part in them."
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Associated Press Writer Amy Teibel contributed to this report from
Washington.
Aviroce
the conference. When you read from Livni that Arabs "should not
expect to dictate the contours of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations."
negotiations or take part in them." one can conclude that Israel has
no intention to yield to Palestinian agenda on all just and fair
claims. In fact, it is a Zionist strategy to sabotage any effort at
getting peace between Palestinians and Israelis because this way a
"state of war" would give Israel an excuse to annex Palestinian land
and annihilate the claimants to these lands. What Israel also fails
to see is that the Palestinians are negotiating for all Palestinians
not only the ones in Israeli Concentration Camps.
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"Aviroce" <dudar...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> It seems that Ahmadinjad is right in his pessimistice evaluation of
> the conference. When you read from Livni that Arabs "should not
> expect to dictate the contours of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations."
> and "it is not the role of the Arab world to define the terms of the
> negotiations or take part in them." one can conclude that Israel has
> no intention to yield to Palestinian agenda on all just and fair
> claims. In fact, it is a Zionist strategy to sabotage any effort at
> getting peace between Palestinians and Israelis because this way a
> "state of war" would give Israel an excuse to annex Palestinian land
> and annihilate the claimants to these lands. What Israel also fails
> to see is that the Palestinians are negotiating for all Palestinians
> not only the ones in Israeli Concentration Camps.
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