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Article: ARAB EUROPEAN RELATIONS - July 14 - Sarkozy Helps To Bring Syria Out Of Isolation.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- July 19, 2008
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Leaders of 43 nations with nearly 800 million inhabitants inaugurated a "Union for the Mediterranean" meant to bring the northern and southern countries that ring the sea closer together through practical projects dealing with the environment, climate, transportation, immigration and policing. But the meeting was also an opportunity for Pres Nicolas Sarkozy of France to exercise some highly public Middle East diplomacy by bringing Pres Bashar al-Assad of Syria out of isolation for an Elysee Palace meeting and by playing host to a session between PM Ehud Olmert of Israel and the Palestinian Pres, Mahmoud Abbas. The Union for the Mediterranean is the brainchild of Sarkozy, ...