Bush Meets Syria's Assad -- U.S. Says Assad Agrees Iraq Should Receive No Reward'' 1990
remember when Bush worked so hard to free Kuwait and burned to death the convoy of cars full of people trying to escape.
Saturday, November 24, 1990
GENEVA, Switzerland - Syria's leader yesterday assured President Bush of his support for U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf and agreed to continue a ``dialogue'' with U.S. officials over Syria's involvement in terrorism, the White House said.
In the first meeting in 13 years between the leaders of the two nations, Bush and President Hafez Assad conferred in Geneva for about three hours, an hour longer than scheduled, and had an ``extended conversation on the question of terrorism,'' said a six-paragraph statement that White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater issued after the meeting.
Fitzwater's statement said that Bush and Assad agreed on Gulf policy and that ``Iraq should receive no reward for its aggression and that Kuwait's territory and legitimate government must be restored fully.''
Bush and Assad agreed also ``to continue the U.S.-Syrian dialogue with the goal of achieving positive results'' on the terrorism issue, Fitzwater said.
Investigators have linked Syria to the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people.
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