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• Title: Syrian Leadership Debates Thaw with Washington (Syria-Report: US)
• Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
• Release Date : January 25, 2009
• Genre: Reference,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 65 KB

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's closest aides are divided over Damascus' recent overtures to Washington, with opponents arguing that the Barack Obama administration wants to take more from Syria than to give it, the Beirut-based influential daily AN NAHAR reported recently. "A serious discussion is taking place in the Syrian leadership about the feasibility of Syrian openness toward the United States and coordination with it. Led by Vice-President Farouk al-Sharaa, opponents to Syrian-US rapprochement believe that expectations from Syrian-US dialogue should be great because the US administration wants to take from Syria more than what it wants to give to it," the newspaper said. "The opponents also believe that the Obama administration is actually reiterating the demands of the second Bush administration regarding Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Iran and the Middle East in general. The only change, they say, is the way the current administration is dealing with Syria," it added, quoting unnamed Western diplomatic sources. "The Obama administration is resorting to dialogue and soft diplomacy, compared to the public threats and arm twisting of its predecessor. Yet it sticks to calls for changing current Syrian policies according to specific US demands," it said. "The advocates of US-Syrian dialogue, on the other hand, are more realistic and resilient. Led by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem, the advocates are strongly in favor of openness to Washington and of giving Syrian-US dialogue a full chance to bear fruit, including clear-cut gains for Syria," it added. "They believe that the Obama administration is desperate to reach agreements with Syria that serve Syria's interests," the sources said, arguing that the calculations of Syrian advocates of their country's dialogue with the United States "are not too accurate."

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