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Report: France, Syria coordinate Security Council efforts to avert Iraq war (AP, Jan 30, 2003)

Leaders of Syria and France discussed ways Thursday to coordinate their positions on the U.N. Security Council to avert a war on Iraq, the official Syrian Arab News Agency reported.

Syrian President Bashar Assad received a telephone call from his French counterpart, Jacques Chirac, in which the agency said they sought ways to "coordinate at the Security Council in the next stage to prevent the circumstances from reaching the point that may lead to the war on Iraq." [...]

Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa, meanwhile, reiterated his country's "absolute rejection" of U.S. threats to wage a war against Iraq.

"A war in Iraq will have dangerous repercussions and consequences on the region," he said in a speech delivered to members of the Arab Writers Union during an annual meeting Thursday.

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Yes, the most obvious consequence is that Syria becomes the top layer of scum waiting to be skimmed off of the Middle East swamp. Apparently the frogs don't mind getting caught up in the skimmers. (How's that for an extended and tortured metaphor?) Posted by Orrin Judd at January 30, 2003 5:04 PM