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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (4540)10/12/2001 12:07:37 PM
From: Scoobah  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Syria summons U.S. envoy, protests against threat

Syria summoned the U.S. ambassador on Friday and delivered a strong protest against the
implied threat made against Damascus by Armitage, a diplomatic source said.

Ambassador Theodore Kattouf was summoned to the foreign ministry and handed a protest against remarks made by Armitage.

The Syrian protest emphasized that Syrian, Arab and Islamic demands for making a distinction in the campaign between terrorism and the right to resist foreign occupation were in accordance with the United Nations Charter and international law, the source said.

"The ambassador was informed about Syria's protest against Mr. Armitage's remarks. He was told there should be a distinction between terrorism and the people's right to resist foreign occupation in accordance with international law and the United Nations charter," the diplomat said.

Syria considered Armitage's statement contradictory to remarks by U.S. President George W. Bush stating that Syria had expressed its readiness to take part in the war against terrorism and that Washington took that seriously, the source added.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has condemned the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington in which thousands of people were killed and called in a message to Bush for a world effort to uproot terrorism.
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