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President Bashar Al-Assad Meets Larsen: 2 Stage Withdrawal
2005-03-13
ALEPPO, Mar. 12 c(SANA-Syrian News Agency)
www.sana.org/english/headlines/ 12-3/assad-Larsen.htm
President Bashar al-Assad received at al-Diyafa Palace on Saturday the UN. Secretary General Special Envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen and an accompanying delegation.
Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara and Deputy Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem attended the meeting.
Following the meeting Larsen described his talks with President al-Assad as "very constructive" saying that I am encouraged over President al-Assad's announcement of the complete implementation of the UN Security Council resolution No. 1559.
Both sides reached an understanding through which the Syrian forces will withdraw in two stages.
In the first stage the Syrian forces will be re-redeployed in al-Beqaa region before the end of current March along with the return of sizeable part of those forces to Syria.
In the second stage the rest of the troops will be fully withdrawn.
Larsen said that he would present to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan the timetable of the Syrian full withdrawal from Lebanon next week.
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