Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
05CAIRO6435
2005-08-22 11:18:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Cairo
Cable title:  

PRESSURING SYRIA TO NORMALIZE THE SYRIAN-LEBANESE

Tags:  PREL PGOV EAID ETRD ECON EG SY LE 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L CAIRO 006435

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/RA AND NEA/ELA

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/22/2015
TAGS: PREL PGOV EAID ETRD ECON EG SY LE
SUBJECT: PRESSURING SYRIA TO NORMALIZE THE SYRIAN-LEBANESE
BORDER

REF: STATE 151378 (NOTAL)

Classified by Acting ECPO Chief Jerry Mallory for reasons 1.4
(b) and (d).

(C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on August 22 to MFA
Cabinet staff member Alaa Hadidi, stressing the importance of
continued GOE pressure on Damascus to end its economic
harassment of Lebanon and to follow through on implementation
of UNSCR 1559. Hadidi, who was handling the Syria/Lebanon
file for one of his vacationing colleagues, promised to
convey the talking points (left with Hadidi in the form of an
aide-memoire) to the Minister and others within the GOE
bureaucracy. As for the substance of the demarche itself,
Hadidi offered little regarding GOE relations with either
Damascus or Beirut. He mentioned, however, that the upcoming
September 6 meeting of Arab League ministers of foreign
affairs would offer an opportunity to address such issues,
most likely on the margins of the gathering. The foreign
ministers of both Syria and Lebanon are expected to attend
the meeting, to take place one day before Egypt's
presidential election.


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