DAMASCUS, March 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Tuesday discussed with visiting Iraqi Revolution Command Council
Vice Chairman Izzat Ibrahim and Foreign Minister Nagi Sabri Ahmed
the Mideast situation and the agenda of an Arab summit to be held
later this month.
   The meeting tackled the situation in the region, especially the
massacres and aggressions committed by the Israeli occupation
forces in the Palestinian territories as well as the issues to be
discussed by Arab leaders at the summit in Beirut, Lebanon, on
March 27-28, Syrian Arab News Agency reported.
   Both the Syrian president and Iraqi officials stressed the need
to come out with a single Arab stand that upholds Arab solidarity
and safeguards Arab national security, the report said.
   Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Faruk Shareh was present at
the meeting.
   The Iraqi officials arrived here on Monday for a three-day visit
to Syria.  Enditem