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1999 Syria Special Weapons News

• Text: Senior Clinton Administration Officials Brief on Israeli-Syrian Talks USIA 14 December 1999 -- Two senior Clinton Administration officials briefed on the background at the White House on December 14, a day before Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak are scheduled to begin their historic peace negotiation.
• ISRAEL - SYRIA TALKS Voice of America 10 December 1999 -- Israel's Prime Minister and Syria's foreign minister will reopen peace negotiations in Washington next Wednesday. The talks are to take up where they left off more than three years ago.
• ISRAEL AND SYRIA SET TO RESUME PEACE TALKS Voice of America 10 December 1999 -- President Clinton's announcement that Syria and Israel will resume top-level negotiations toward a peace settlement has gotten a great deal of editorial comment.
• SYRIA - GOLAN Voice of America 09 December 1999 -- Syria wants the entire Golan returned, but Israel says how far it withdraws depends on the extent of security arrangements and normalization of relations with Syria.
• SYRIA / SUCCESSION Voice of America 09 December 1999 -- Western diplomats in Damascus say a chief topic of conversation in Syria is the question of who will succeed the country's ailing president, Hafez al Assad.
• SYRIA - ECONOMY Voice of America 10 December 1999 -- Economists say Syria has a long way to go with needed economic reforms as it enters the third millennium.
• Missiles From China By Sue Lackey ABCNEWS.com 23 Aug 1999 -- Syria is dodging U.S. attempts to keep it from getting Chinese missiles by going through a circuitous route that includes North Korea, Pakistan and Iran. “Pakistan has essentially no indigenous production capability;” says John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists. “North Korea has developed the [missile] program, Iran is attempting to finish it, and Pakistan is helping them pay for it.”
• RUSSIA / SYRIA Voice of America 06 July 1999 -- SYRIA WANTS TO BUY TOP-OF-THE-LINE FIGHTER JETS SUCH AS MIG-29'S, AND TO PURCHASE UPGRADED AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS AND MODERN T-80 TANKS.

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