Word: khaddam
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...unwelcome development. We want them to be moving out, not in." In the meantime, the State Department issued a list of statements in which Syria had promised to get out of Lebanon as soon as the Israelis did. On Feb. 14, for example, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam told his French counterpart, Claude Cheysson, that "Syria would withdraw its forces from Lebanon if the Israelis withdrew their troops." U.S. diplomats note that Syrian officials have repeatedly said the same thing to them in private...
...efforts to bring Hussein and the Palestinians to the conference table, the U.S. seems to be making progress at last in the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib has told the Israelis that he saw a letter in which Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam assured his Lebanese counterpart, Elie Salem, that "when the last Israeli leaves, the last Syrian will leave...
...spent two days getting acquainted with new Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat said that the negotiations between Lebanon and Israel were "worse than Camp David." In Nicaragua, where he was attending a meeting of nonaligned countries, Syrian Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam said that his government would resist any peace terms imposed on Lebanon by Israel. Declared Khaddam: "We affirm our categorical rejection of the Israeli conditions proposed to Lebanon." Syria has already rejected Reagan's Sept. 1 peace initiative, which calls for a future relationship between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West...
Much of Shultz's time in New York spent on the problems of the Middle East (see WORLD). A key discussion with Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam ran four times as long as the 30 minutes scheduled. The Syrians repeated their commitment to withdraw promptly from Lebanon if Israel does the same. "The U.S. was encouraged by the serious character of the exchange," said State Department Spokesman John Hughes. To other Arab ministers, including Jordan's Marwan Kasim, Shultz emphasized the need for Jordanian participation in Reagan's peace plan for the region...
...either the Arabs or the Israelis, let alone both, even to try for a Beirut-Palestinian settlement. The Soviets, having failed to keep Syria and the P.L.O. from military defeat at the hands of Israel, have been at least temporarily pushed out of the picture, as attested by Khaddam's presence in Washington rather than Moscow. Soviet President Brezhnev last week suggested a U.N. force to separate Israeli and P.L.O. fighters in Lebanon, and a Middle East peace conference. One White House aide airily and accurately dismissed his views as "not relevant...