U.S. officials downplayed expectations that Israeli-Syrian talks would resume soon as a result of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s meeting in Cairo with her Syrian counterpart, Farouk al-Sharaa. “It is going to take some time before we get a resumption of talks,” one State Department official said.
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