Syria to attend peace meeting
25/11/2007 17:11  - (SA)  

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Damascus - Syria will attend a US-hosted Middle East peace conference, but send its deputy foreign minister rather than the country's top diplomat, a source close to the foreign ministry said on Sunday.

A source said deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad would represent Syria officially at the Annapolis, Maryland, conference due to take place on Tuesday.

Other Arab countries attending the conference, including Saudi Arabia, are sending their foreign ministers.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem had pegged Syria's participation on an agreement by Washington to include the issue of the Golan Heights, which Israel has occupied since 1967, on the agenda of the conference.

Mekdad is a former Syrian ambassador to the United Nations.

- SAPA

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