EU's Solano to visit Syria for talks
The European Union plans to send its foreign policy chief Javier Solana to Syria for talks on Lebanon and Middle East peace, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern said today. The visit would end an EU freeze on high-level contacts with Damascus. "The intention is that Javier Solana will go to Damascus and I very much welcome that," Mr Ahern said after EU foreign ministers discussed Lebanon and the Middle East on the margins of a summit.
French President Jacques Chirac has been blocking EU contacts with Syria over its alleged role in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
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