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1//The Daily Star, Lebanon Friday, May 06, 2005
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=14837 SAUDI LEADER TO PROD SYRIA TO HELP REGIONAL STABILITY
Strategy to be backed by U.S. assurances that it will ease pressure on Damascus
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's crown prince will use his upcoming visit to Syria to ask President Bashar Assad to cooperate in stabilizing the region and not meddle in Lebanon, after having urged U.S. President George W. Bush to ease pressure on Damascus, aides said Thursday.
Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz is due to hold talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Friday before going to Damascus.
A court official in Amman said Thursday the Saudi prince would also visit the Jordanian capital for a few hours Saturday for talks with King Abdullah II on "the situation in the region and peace prospects in the Middle East."
The aides traveling with Abdullah, who is on a private visit to Morocco after trips to France and the United States, said he would "encourage Assad to put into practice his stated intentions to carry out internal reforms and cooperate at the regional level."
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According to the Saudi sources, Bush and Abdullah agreed during their talks at the U.S. leader's Texas ranch on April 25 that Assad "should be given a chance to introduce political and security reforms at home and to formulate a policy of non-intervention in Lebanon, especially by Syrian security services." Abdullah urged Bush to cooperate with, rather than put pressure on, Damascus, the sources said.
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