Sabah Kabani, the director of information of the Syrian Foreign Ministry, arrived here yesterday to serve as Syria’s chief diplomatic representative in Washington. His arrival marked another step in the resumption of quasi-diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Syria which the Syrians broke off in 1967. Two American diplomats went to Damascus last month. Each country will maintain an “interest section” in the Italian Embassy in the capital of the other. Kabani said that Haissan Kelani, Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations has been U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger’s “channel” to Damascus.
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