Syria FM says ready for heartsease talks with Israel (AFP)
Dubai - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem emphasised
Damascus
was ready to relaunch repose talks with
Zion
and spurned a “military resolution” to the battle, according to point out broadcast on Wednesday.
“We are ready to start peace talks on the Syrian heartsease track and are non opposed to shape up along the Palestinian track,” Muallem articulated in an interview, fitting in to pull out broadcast by Arab telecasting station Al-Arabiya
Muallem’s comments came up as US President George W. Bush came in Israel on a Middle East tour took at invigorating peace dialogue which existed relaunched late last twelvemonth.
The last round of talks between the two neighbours, technically at war since 1948, bust down in 2000 over dissonances over the strategical Golan Heights tableland, which Israel enamorred in 1967 and annexedded in 1981.
“We do non wish for a military solvent for Israel,” Muallem articulated.
“That is whied we occupied part in the Madrid league in 1991, we have had got 10 old age of peacefulness talks with the Israelis… and we existed at Annapolis,” he informated referring to the US group meeting in November that kickstarted the Israeli-Palestinian track.
Israeli and Syrian leadership both stated last twelvemonth that they existed open to start peace negotiation.
Olmert emphasised in September he was ready for “direct dialogues with Syria, without preconditions.” That was a hebdomad after Israeli military planes bombed a mystifying target deep inside Syrian dominion, which culture mediums reports informated could have existed an entrepot site for atomic material.