The United States urged Damascus to help revive the Syrian-Israeli peace talks that broke off early last year. A spokesman at the Syrian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell made the request in a message to Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa after Syria was elected to the U.N. Security Council earlier this month.
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