Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam emerged today from a breakfast meeting with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and expressed pessimism over prospects for peace between Syria and Israel. “All doors for peace are closed,” Khaddam told reporters, “There is nothing to talk about.”
Khaddam did not attend a dinner for members of the Arab League that Kissinger hosted last night at the United States Mission to the United Nations at which the Secretary said that the aim of his consultations with foreign officials attending the UN General Assembly meeting is to “determine how to proceed between Israel and Syria, if the parties desire.”
The dinner, the third Kissinger has given for the Arab League since becoming Secretary of State in 1973, was attended by 11 foreign ministers and representatives of eight other Arab states.
