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Peres "Skeptical" about UK's Syria Overtures
[Reuters] Sophie Walker - Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said on Wednesday he was skeptical about efforts by Britain to bring Syria into peace negotiations. Tony Blair's foreign policy chief Nigel Sheinwald met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem on Monday during an unannounced visit to Damascus. Peres told reporters in London, "If you ask me, I am skeptical. Not because of Britain but because of Syria. They are running a double policy. On the one hand they are hosting the head of the Hamas organization and they are helping Hizballah...while on the other they talk about peace....They don't need to make peace with the Europeans, they need to make peace with us."