VOL. XLVI

No 4

27-January-2003

SYRIA

Russia Retracts Commitment To Help Syria Develop Nuclear Industry

Russias Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on 19 January said that his country had no plans to build nuclear facilities in Syria for peaceful or any other purposes. His remarks, made during talks with visiting Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky, amounted to the retraction of a statement from Russias atomic energy minister on 15 January that Moscow and Damascus had begun negotiations to...