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Diplomatic back channels: years of USA-Syria talks in Geneva

US President Bill Clinton, right, shakes hands with Syrian President Hafez Assad.

This content was published on Jun 21, 2021 The situation at the end of the 1960s in the Middle East is tense. Israel and the Arab states are at war. Syria clashes against Israel over occupied territories in the Golan Heights. The US hopes to stabilise the region by strengthening ties with Arab nations. It is in Geneva that presidents Hafez al-Assad and Jimmy Carter meet in 1977 for peace negotiations. The talks are unsuccessful. In 1990, president George H. W. Bush meets Assad in Geneva again. The context is tense, and only a few weeks…

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