Israel's Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom has told a Kuwaiti newspaper that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other senior Syrian officials, have sent many messages to Israel following the war in Iraq.
In an interview due to be published Thursday in the Kuwaiti Al-Rai Al-Am newspaper, Shalom said the messages have been delivered through Israeli and Arab businessmen.
According to the Minister, Israel has decided to wait before responding to the Syrian messages to "examine the seriousness of the Syrians to hold meetings with us (the Israelis) and to verify this is not an attempt to exploit Israel so as to ease U.S. pressures on Syria." (Albawaba.com)
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