Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam said on Saturday, in response to the Israeli position on resuming negotiations with Syria, that "returning negotiations to ground zero with Israel means hesitating and waiting another 20 years until we achieve a tangible result.”
Khaddam told reporters after meeting with a delegation of 60 Iraqi union leaders in Iraq: "We clearly announced that negotiations (with Israel) would resume where they left off, because going back to zero means shaky negotiations and means that we will have to wait another 20 years until we achieve a tangible result.
Khaddam stressed: “The Americans know exactly where the negotiations are and they have all the documents. »
Khaddam stressed that Syria is committed to restoring all its occupied territories, including the eastern shore of Lake Tiberias, denying what was published in the Israeli press on this subject, citing a US senator who said that the statement Israeli “is not true, neither remotely nor remotely.
On Tuesday, Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted a US senator who met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as saying that Syria was ready to negotiate with Israel without any preconditions and could agree to resume peace talks with Israel " from zero ".
