Saturday, May 3, 2008

Feltman talks to Mustapha ...

The Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Near Eastern Affairs Jeff Feltman & Syria's Ambassador Imad Mustapha met for just over 2 hours in Foggy Bottom ....
Amb. Mustapha was not available for 'comments' as he left on a flight to Damascus hours after the meeting. The meeting in itself is important for the simple fact that it took place (such meetings were extremely scarce if not nonexistent ...) , was unusually long for a simple "you-are-this-and-we-are-that" session, and it happened against a background of promising and/or imminently precarious regional atmospherics ...

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