May 03, 2008

FLC: "The Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Near Eastern Affairs Jeff Feltman & Syria's Ambassador Imad Mustapha met for just over 2 hours in Foggy Bottom ...Meeting details to come."

Update from FLC: "Amb. Mustapha was not available for 'comments' as he left on a flight to Damascus hours after the meeting. The meeting in itself is important for the simple fact that it took place (such meetings were extremely scarce if not nonexistent ...) , was unusually long for a simple "you are this and we are that", and it happened against a background of promising and/or imminently precarious regional atmospherics ..."

Posted by Laura at May 3, 2008 04:19 PM