Syria toughens stand
NZPA-Reuter Damascus Syria will inform the American Secretary of State (Mr Cyrus Vance) in Damascus that it will have noth* ing to do with present Middle East peace moves, official Syrian sources have reported. They said that Syria would not attend preparatory peace talks in Cairo, due to begin today, and said further that it would boycott any conference in Geneva which was reconvened on the basis of the Cairo meeting.
Mr Vance is due to arrive in Damascus from Beirut on his six-nation Middle East tour aimed at enlisting Arab support for Egyptian .President Anwar Sadat’s peace initiative with Israel.
So far only Israel and the United States have agreed to join the Egyptians for the talks in Cairo. The United Nations is to send an observer.
The Syrian President (Mr Hafez al-Assad) has emerged as the leader of an antiSadat front formed at a restricted Arab summit in Tripoli early this month, and Mr Vance’s discussions in Damascus are expected to be the toughest of his tour.
Mr Vance failed in Amman to persuade Jordan to attend the meeting, but reporters travelling with the secretary were told that he still believed Jordan would join the peace-making process.
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