US-UK diplomats go to Damascus.

From Voltairenet.org:


8 August 2007

From Beirut (Lebanon)


The available press information on steps that House Speaker Nabih Berri may take to select an agreed on presidential candidate in the aftermath of the by-elections results suggest that no one is able to impose his vision concerning the solution of the crisis. Therefore, each side finds itself before two options: either agreement or confrontation that may lead the country to security problems.

An event and a Regional Trend


The security meeting of Iraq’s neighboring states will be held in Damascus in the presence of US and British representatives. The available information say that the conference was decided to be held in Damascus due to a US desire in an attempt by Washington to open a window on the possibility of resuming negotiations with Syria despite president George Bush’s violent campaigns and condensed pressures on Syria.



An expert in regional affairs considers the presence of the two US and British representatives as a new sign on the failure of the Saudi efforts which aim at jumping over the Syrian stand which is indispensable in all the area’s issues. That is what literally expressed by coordinator of the European commission Javier Solana when he explained the details of the European Union’s decision to resume dialogue with Syria and this was translated by the visits of French, Spanish and European delegations to Syria.



An Arab diplomatic source said the US crisis in Iraq imposes on the ground a behavior that the official statements of the administration do not recognize. It seems that this contradiction will be solved with the passage of time but the margin of pledges will remain because some Saudi officials promised their US allies to inherit the Syrian role in Lebanon and exclude Syria from the Iraqi theatre, but events force the US to demand cooperation with Syria. The question to be posed here is: What will Riyadh do?



Will it return to the triangle that gathers it with Damascus and Cairo or continue its enmity to Syria while the US performance does the opposite?