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