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Date(s)
- 1997 Jul 1 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
56pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Farouk Al-Shar'a, Syrian Foreign Minister 1984-2006, describing meeting of Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria 1971-2000, with Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party USSR 1985-1991, 1985; Assad's meeting with George Herbert Walker Bush, US President 1989-1993, during the Persian Gulf War, Nov 1990, and Syria's conditional support of the coalition against Iraqi occupation of Kuwait 1990-1991; Syria's view of Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights; the role of the James Addison Baker III, US Secretary of State 1989-1992, and Bush, in renewed initiative for Middle East peace, Mar 1991; negotiations of Syrian participation in the Madrid Conference, May-Oct 1991; events of the Conference including the speech by Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister 1986-1992, Al-Shar'a's response, and the arrangements for the multilateral talks, Oct 1991. 56pp