The State Department announced today that Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Abda-Hlim Khadam, will confer here with President Ford and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger June 20. According to Department spokesman Robert Funseth, the meeting, to take place nine days after Ford and Kissinger meet with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, will be part of the Administration’s ongoing reassessment of American Middle East policy. He said that as far as he knew, no other meetings with visiting foreign diplomats were planned as part of the reassessment process.
President Ford met with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Salzburg, Austria June 1-2 and will confer here with Premier Rabin June 11-12. Funseth volunteered the statement that in the President’s talks with Rabin this week, the U.S. will take a “constructive attitude” and was “confident that the Prime Minister (Rabin) is approaching the meeting with the same attitude.”
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