Damascus visit
NZPA-Reuter Amman King Hussein would visit Damascus this week-end, capping four months of Arab League-sponsored talks aimed at easing years of tension between Jordan and Syria, diplomatic sources said yesterday. They expected the Syrian President, Mr. Hafez Assad, to return the visit early in
the new year, further cementing a rapprochement begun when the two countries’ Prime Ministers met in Saudi Arabia in September. ■ . The two leaders last exchanged visits in 1975, before bilateral relations were strained by differences over the Iran-Iraq war and how to handle the Arab-Israeli conflict >
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Press, 28 December 1985, Page 5
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