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Top US Lawmaker Meets With Syrian President
Date: 2/21/2009 9:24:52 AM Sender: VOA News
Top US Lawmaker Meets With Syrian President  
By VOA News
21 February 2009

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (l) meets with U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, at the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus, 21 Feb 2009

The United States and Syria appear to have taken another step in an effort to improve relations.

U.S. Senator John Kerry met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus Saturday, the latest in a series of contacts between the two countries.

Kerry, a former presidential candidate and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is the third U.S. lawmaker to talk with the Syrian leader this week.

U.S. officials have consistently warned Syria about its possible nuclear program and its alleged support of terrorist groups. But on Friday, the U.S. called for a meeting with Syria＇s ambassador to the U.S. to address those concerns.

State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid said Ambassador Imad Mustafa was invited to meet with Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman next week.

The spokesman cited a U.N. nuclear agency report Thursday that said traces of uranium were found at a Syrian site suspected of being a covert nuclear plant. The State Department urged full Syrian cooperation with the IAEA.

The United States has not had a full-fledged ambassador in Syria since former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in 2005. Washington also has accused Syria of allowing militants to cross its border into Iraq.

President Assad told a British newspaper this week he hopes for a new relationship with the U.S. now that the administration of former President George W. Bush is over. The Syrian president also said he expects President Barack Obama to send an ambassador back to Damascus soon.

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