"...Mr Mouallem said afterwards that the meeting “was short but very pleasant”, and that he was “happy it happened”. With the strict protocols at summits, such encounters rarely happen by chance; they are more frequently designed to send subtle but powerful messages....The meeting was all the more significant as Mrs Clinton had just told Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister, that she doubted that Iran – Syria’s main ally in the region – would respond to President Obama’s offer to engage with it after years of enmity. “We’re under no illusions,” Mrs Clinton said, according to an aide. “Our eyes are wide open on Iran.”
"'America is something that can be easily moved. Moved to the right direction.They won’t get in our way'" Benjamin Netanyahu
Monday, March 2, 2009
Hillary Clinton offers handshake of friendship to Syria
In the London Times, here
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