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The World This Week, Nov. 13, 2009, Part 2
Taking on the Mideast diplomatic flurry in Paris, the upcoming EU presidential vote, the NATO mission in Afghanistan, Franco-German relations and US President Barack Obama’s Asian tour in FRANCE 24’s weekly news analysis roundup.
Afghanistan - Asian markets - Barack Obama - diplomacy - Europe - Germany - Middle East - Syria
The World This Week, Nov. 13, 2009, Part 1
Taking on the Mideast diplomatic flurry in Paris, the upcoming EU presidential vote, the NATO mission in Afghanistan, Franco-German relations and US President Barack Obama’s Asian tour in FRANCE 24’s weekly news analysis roundup.
Bashar al-Assad - Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Middle East - peace - Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
In an exclusive interview with France 2 television while in Paris, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad discusses his relations with French president Nicolas Sarkozy, the stalled Middle East peace process, and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
DIPLOMACY
Syria's President Assad refuses direct peace talks with Israel
Syria's President Basher al-Assad has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of not being serious about peace, and rejected Israeli offers of direct peace talks after meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris.
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Focus on Israeli-Syrian talks as Assad visits Paris
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is meeting with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, in Paris Friday amid Syrian calls for France to play a bigger role in the Mideast peace efforts.
Bashar al-Assad - Benjamin Netanyahu - Israel - Middle East - Syria
The road to Damascus to (via Paris) Part. 2
What is the role France plays in the Middle East? Traditionally close to Lebanon, the position of France on Middle East affairs has changed under President Sarkozy. But to what extent and to what result?
Bashar al-Assad - Benjamin Netanyahu - Middle East - Syria
The road to Damascus to (via Paris)
What is the role France plays in the Middle East? Traditionally close to Lebanon, the position of France on Middle East affairs has changed under President Sarkozy. But to what extent and to what result?
civil war - Egypt - Emirates - Iraq - Islamic veil - Lebanon - shiite - Syria - university - Yemen
Brutal homecoming for Shiite Lebanese
In this edition: thousands of Shiite Lebanese are expelled from the UAE for refusing to rat on their compatriotes; civilians get caught in the crossfire in Yemen's civil war; students at a Cairo university are divided over a proposed niqab ban.
SAUDI ARABIA - SYRIA
King Abdullah in Damascus as relations thaw
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah arrived in Syria in a sign of warming ties between the two Arab states, after relations deteriorated over the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and the 2005 assassination of Lebanese leader Rafiq Hariri.
SAUDI ARABIA - SYRIA
King Abdullah to meet Assad in Damascas
For the first time since the 2005 assassination of Lebanese statesman Rafik al-Hariri, in which three Syrian secret agents have been implicated, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia will meet President Bashar al-Assad in Syria this week.
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