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May 4, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/world/middleeast/04diplo.html

U.S. and Syria Discuss Iraq

[New York Times] Helene Cooper and Michael Slackman - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met on Thursday with Syria's foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, in the first high-level diplomatic contact between Washington and Damascus in more than two years. The 30-minute meeting came in the middle of two days of international talks on Iraq at Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. Rice asked that Syria, with its porous border with Iraq, do more to restrict the flow of foreign fighters. Rice characterized her meeting with Moallem as "professional," adding, "I didn't lecture him, and he didn't lecture me."

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