Vice President Farouk Al-shara of Syria
Al-Shara said the only hope for peace lies in a comprehensive solution that removes Israel from all territories it occupied in 1967.
Al-Shara denied that his country supports the suicide bombings carried out by Palestinians against Israeli civilians.
Damascus will retaliate," Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Shara said Saturday in an interview with Italian newspaper Le Repubblica following Israel's reported violation of Syrian airspace on Thursday.
Yet, with politeness aside, whatever Al-Shara said certainly fails to serve Arab interests and relations not to mention that it also aimed at demonizing Saudi Arabia.
Vice President Farouk al-Shara has informed the Leader of Sadrist movement in Iraq Moqtada al-Sadr of Syrias decision to re-establish diplomatic relations with Iraq and exchange diplomatic representation on the level of ambassadors after the formation of the new Iraqi government.
Syria's Foreign Minister, Farouk al-Shara received in Damascus on Saturday The Political Department Chairman of Palestinian Liberation Organization Farouk al-Qaddoumi and an accompanying delegation.
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On the sidelines of the meetings, al-Shara met his Turkish Counterpart Abdullah Gul.
I was not surprised or astonished when Al-Shara said the Saudi role in the region had become paralytic.
It looks like Al-Shara is the official spokesman of the government in Tehran.
Date : 2003-09-09Al-Shara confers with Qaddoumi on ME issues Syria's Foreign Minister, Farouk al-Shara received in Damascus on Saturday The Political Department Chairman of Palestinian Liberation Organization Farouk al-Qaddoumi and an accompanying delegation.
Al-Shara says that former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin had agreed to such a withdrawal before his assassination.
Israel's reported violation of Syrian airspace on Thursday.
Al-Shara said the US allegations are not restricted to a certain country but rather they target the whole Islamic Ummah.
Al-Shara was speaking at a lecture in Damascus University Wednesday on the occasion of referendum on a new constitutional term for President Bashar al-Assad.
On the situation in Lebanon, al-Shara described Syrian-Lebanese brotherly relations as deep, saying what is going on in this regard is a fabrication of disputes as a result of the weak horizon of some Lebanese politicians or of instructions from western capitals.
On the phenomenon of extremist groups as Jund al-sham and Fatah al-Islam', al-Shara said that those groups couldn't find a resort except in a weak and divided country, saying such groups didn't come from emptiness, but they were found because of the absence of the state.
Al-Shara said at a meeting for the National Progressive Front (NPF) Leaderships.
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That assertion came when al-Shara received Head of the Palestine Liberation Organization Political Department Farouk al-Qaddoumi and reviewed the latest developments on the Palestinian arena.
Al-Shara was briefed from Qaddoumi on the results of contacts being made to strengthen the unified Palestinian position.
Al-Shara was visiting Italy for meetings with Prime Minister Romano Prodi, Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema and Pope Benedict XVI, and spoke to the paper from his hotel in Rome.