"Israel must show a commitment to the peace process if Syria is to re-evaluate its support of the 2002 Saudi peace initiative, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said on Thursday.
The minister's comments were made two days before Arab leaders were to meet in Damascus for a regional summit scheduled for Saturday.
According to Moallem, Israeli reluctance to take diplomatic steps towards peace was behind the decision made by Arab League members in Cairo last month that the continuation of the Saudi Peace initiative will hinge upon Israeli cooperation.......
Abbas says he opposes withdrawal of peace plan
Abbas conferred Thursday with Jordan's King Abdullah II on the upcoming Arab summit conference in Damascus, and said he was opposed to the proposed withdrawal of the pan-Arab peace plan with Israel.
"There is no room for changing or amending the Arab initiative," Abbas told reporters after the meeting.
"Our attitude has always been that this plan should remain as it is and that we should defend it and fight for it because it is an expensive initiative and the other side [Israel] should accept it," he said.
The Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa recently raised the possibility of withdrawing the Arab peace blueprint at the Damascus summit if Israel continued to ignore it [Do you believe these bankrupt clowns?]......."
The minister's comments were made two days before Arab leaders were to meet in Damascus for a regional summit scheduled for Saturday.
According to Moallem, Israeli reluctance to take diplomatic steps towards peace was behind the decision made by Arab League members in Cairo last month that the continuation of the Saudi Peace initiative will hinge upon Israeli cooperation.......
Abbas says he opposes withdrawal of peace plan
Abbas conferred Thursday with Jordan's King Abdullah II on the upcoming Arab summit conference in Damascus, and said he was opposed to the proposed withdrawal of the pan-Arab peace plan with Israel.
"There is no room for changing or amending the Arab initiative," Abbas told reporters after the meeting.
"Our attitude has always been that this plan should remain as it is and that we should defend it and fight for it because it is an expensive initiative and the other side [Israel] should accept it," he said.
The Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa recently raised the possibility of withdrawing the Arab peace blueprint at the Damascus summit if Israel continued to ignore it [Do you believe these bankrupt clowns?]......."
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