when i went -- i was at naser's funeral. isn't that amazing. i was there with robert murphy t diplomat among warriors and john mccoy. we landed and there were sofr yet airplanes, tanks and soldiers all over that country. this is 1970 plus or minus something. we met with sadat who was the acting president, the vice president, and the briefing papers said he was a light weight. that masser didn't like to have strong vice presidents around him. this fellow won't last 15 minutes. sometimes i over state for emphasis. probably not exactly what the paper said but something like that. we went independent an met and came away enormously impressed, a man of substance and guts and he looked at us in the eye and said look, i have no problems with the united states of america at all except israel. and within a year or two all of the soviet tanks and airplanes and artillery and soldiers were gone. gutsy move. you know, we look at the revolution and we think isn't that terrific. then it starts sorting out and you see it's not so terrific. why is that? the rea

jordanian foreign minister naser juda briefed on jordan's recent engagement, the quartet underscored its support for jordan's positive efforts. we remain committed to the goals that we outlined in new york last september. we agreed on the importance of continued financial international support for the palestinian authority including the need for $1.1 billion in immediate assistance. finally, we have begun discussing some of the transnational issues, piracy, food security, that affect so many millions of people throughout the world. we are also going to be discussing our shared framework to support the democratic transitions and promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth through the doville partnership in the middle east and north africa. so there is a lot for us to discuss and we have a full agenda ahead of us. in preparation for the leaders meeting at camp david next month. so again, i welcome my colleagues and look forward to our work together. thank you all. >> and the g-8 foreign ministers meeting concludes today bat 12:45 eastern this afternoon, secretary clinton is sched

naser intervention in syria may be on cards turkey is planning to appeal for the alliance of supports clashes between us army and the rebels recently spilled over into its territory that's according to the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton speaking at a ministerial gathering of the friends of syria group in paris but she also called on a global arms embargo and tougher of financial sanctions against a mascot and fails to abide by a cease fire the pentagon has also said it's ready to carry out military action in syria if need it involve the u.n. to sign a motion where the government on the terms of the international bodies monitoring group under the agreement the observers how the freedom to go anywhere in the country they were based research. the importance of their mission cannot be underlined enough. this is incredibly significant especially when we consider a lot of the other regional neighbors of syria behaving very poorly and provoking violent conflict in syria and suggesting that they want to arm the rebels and continue and actually increase the level of violence that's ha

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