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publisher: UPI

Publishing date: 1997-04-07

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 Chinese diplomatic sources say two Syrian envoys were expected to visit China this week to discuss the stalled Middle East peace process and boosting cooperation between the two countries.
The sources say Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam and Foreign Minister Farouk Sharaa were scheduled to meet on Wednesday with Chinese President Jiang Zemin and other top officials.
They say the two envoys will hand Zemin a letter from Syrian President Hafez Assad related to developments in the Middle East peace process as well as bilateral ties and ways to consolidate cooperation between the two countries.
The sources tell United Press International that the Chinese will reaffirm their support of Syria’s position on the Arab-Israeli peace process, ‘which aims at regaining the occupied Arab land, including the Golan Heights, and stopping Israeli housing projects in Arab east Jerusalem, in order to resume the peace talks from where they stopped’ in February 1996.
Although China established diplomatic and economic ties with Israel in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War, the sources say it was ready to renew its support of Syria before the United Nations Security Council and international parleys.
They also praised Syria and other developing countries for ‘foiling U.S.-European attempts to condemn China for alleged human rights violations.’
The sources denied that Khaddam and Sharaa will discuss the possibility of China supplying Syria with weapons, saying ‘military cooperation between the two countries stopped in the early 1980s after a boom in the 1960s and 70s.’ —
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