Diplomat: Rice to meet Syrian counterpart

Source: UPI

CAIRO, May 2 (UPI) -- The icy relations between the United States and Syria could warm up if the chief diplomats of the two countries meet this week in Egypt.

A high-level Egyptian diplomat told United Press International Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is set to meet Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on the sidelines of a conference on Iraq Thursday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik. It would be the highest-level U.S.-Syrian engagement in years.

The diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the talks between the two would focus on controlling Syria's borders with Iraq, plagued by infiltrating Arab fighters, as well as the political crisis in Lebanon, where the pro-Syrian political forces refuse to endorse the international tribunal looking into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Moallem said earlier this week he would meet Rice if such a meeting was requested.

Hosting Egyptian officials, however, would not say whether the chief U.S. diplomat would hold a similar meeting with her Iranian counterpart, who will also attend the Sharm el-Sheik conference that includes Iraq's neighbors.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/International_Intelligence/Briefing/2007/05/02/diplomat_rice_to_meet_syrian_counterpart/

Pelosi shows it can be done, Condi sees it and is reminded by the critics of her failures, and decides to get on the bus.

or states that support terrorist activities?
I assume the rebuke Pelosi got will be forthcoming from crash cart and *?

mouths.