The Israeli Foreign Minister has said he is ready to meet with his Syrian counterpart "at any time, in any place."

The official said Treasury officials had met several times in recent months with their Syrian counterparts to discuss the issue.

She had a 30-minute meeting with Walid Muallem, her Syrian counterpart on May 3, 2007-the first such talks at this level since 2005.

Ambassador Crocker said that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had raised the matter with her Syrian counterpart.

Mr. Genscher spoke after a two-hour meeting with his Syrian counterpart, Farouk al-Sharaa.

Joseph felt that the Catholic Church was not treating newly-converted Christians as equals to their Syrian counterparts, leading to dissatisfaction among the converts.

Still, said the commander, who keeps a daily eye on his Syrian counterparts encamped across the fortified border, a genuine peace would justify this painful trade-off.

By evening, Tzemah had fallen and a new Israeli defensive line was set up in the Deganias, facing the Syrian counterparts.

French administrators were assigned to all levels of government, and their role was, officially, to train Syrian counterparts in that particular function.

The Israeli ambassador spoke briefly with his Syrian counterpart during his visit to Washington.