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Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/01/us.syria.talks/
U.S.-Syria Talks May Be Step toward Thaw
[CNN] Elise Labott - The U.S. and Syria held a series of meetings this week, signaling a possible thaw between the two countries as the U.S. seeks to peel Syria from its close ties with Iran. The talks between Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch on Monday in New York came on the heels of a brief meeting between Moallem and Condoleezza Rice a day earlier, senior State Department officials said. Welch raised continuing U.S. concerns about Syrian behavior in Lebanon and warned that Syria should not use last weekend's bombing of a military facility in Damascus, Syria, as a pretext to justify military action in northern Lebanon.