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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: October 11, 2007 |
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Adding to the pessimism already surrounding the upcoming summit, Syrian President Bashar Assad announced on Thursday that his country would not participate in November's conference in Annapolis, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Assad said the conference would not answer any of his demands, his biggest being that Israel hand over the Golan Heights, a strategically vital plateau that Israel won in the 1967 war.
Arab countries, whom Israel is courting in hopes that their attendance will lend legitimacy to the conference, said that the summit will likely be a "waste of time."
Within Israel, politicians from across the political spectrum have urged Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to call off the conference.
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