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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of
State Colin Powell said Wednesday the Bush
administration had begun a “very vigorous
diplomatic exchange” with Syria and he
intended to go to Damascus for talks with
President Bashar Assad on tensions with
Iraq's wartime ally.
Insisting anew that Syria expel officials
of the fallen Iraqi government who crossed
the border, Powell said in an interview,
“Syria does not want to be a safe haven in
the aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
But rather than distancing the Bush
administration from the Arab government
that aligned itself with Saddam Hussein,
Powell said, “Lots of messages have been
passed back and forth” between
Washington and Damascus through U.S.
Ambassador Theodore Kattouf, and via
Britain, France and Spain.
In fact, Powell told Associated Press
Television News he had spoken earlier in the
day with Spanish Foreign Minister Ana
Palacio “about messages she might deliver”
when she goes to Damascus this weekend.
Beyond that, Powell said, "I would
expect to travel to Syria to have very candid
and straightforward discussions with my
foreign minister colleague (Farouk al-
Sharaa) and with President Bashar Assad.”
He did not say when he intended to visit
Damascus, but indicated the stop would be
part of a broader trip designed to spur peace
making between Israel and the Palestinians.
Powell said once a roadmap for such
peacemaking was announced, “we will see a
much more active American engagement for
the simple reason we now have a prime min
ister on the Palestinian side that we can
work with.”
“We do have a new situa
tion,” Powell said, referring
to Mahmoud Abbas, the des
ignated prime minister, and
Palestinian Finance Minister
Salam Fayyad.
“And so you will see us
become more active, both
with my own involvement
and travels as well as in other
ways,” Powell said.
“The president will be
much more deeply involved
and much more active,” he
added.
For three decades, U.S.
The president
will be much more
deeply involved
and much
isfaction that his six-month effort to
talks with North Korea on nuclear actiot
a multilateral setting had achieved
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ring to the discussions that will be hei:
coming days in Beijing, where envoys!
the United States, North Korea and Q
will convene.
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to-face talks with the U
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Powell said he does
anticipate a breakthroiE
the talks.
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beginning of a long, ine
process of discus:.
presidents have sought to engage Syria in
peacemaking with Israel. Even during a
recent flurry of U.S. accusations that Syria
was assisting Saddam with military technol
ogy and providing refuge to Iraqi officials,
Powell spoke of such hopes.
He has been to Syria twice in what so far
has been an inconclusive Bush administra
tion attempt to reopen Mideast peace talks.
On another subject, Powell expressed sat-
Powell said.
“We will lay out clearly our coik
about their nuclear weapons develop:
programs and other weapons of massde':
tion. of their proliferation activities, it;:
programs,” among other issues, he said
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whether Saddam was dead or alive. “Tlie
of the matter is, though, he is gone. Wk
he is dead or alive, he is gone. Heii
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