{"id":797,"date":"2008-07-12T21:22:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T21:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=797"},"modified":"2008-07-13T05:18:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T05:18:45","slug":"paris-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/paris-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris 2008, Paris 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Post by Alex) Here are the first photos from Paris.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/arriving_paris.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"arriving_paris.jpg\" width=\"474\" height=\"796\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Syrian President Bashar Assad arriving to Paris with his wife Asma.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/basharsarkozy3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"basharsarkozy3.jpg\" width=\"474\" height=\"328\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>President Assad with French President Nicolas Sarkozy after first round of talks. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/assad_suleiman.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"assad_suleiman.jpg\" width=\"474\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Assad meeting with Lebanese President Michel Sleiman in Paris.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4way_summit.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"4way_summit.jpg\" width=\"474\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Four-way summit of Syrian President Bashar Assad, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, THe Emir of Qatar, and Lebanese President Michel Sleiman. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hafezchirac.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"hafezchirac.jpg\" width=\"474\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And for those who believe that the situation in the Middle East goes through cycles, here is a photo from Paris 1998. President Hafez Assad, on a &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.highbeam.com\/doc\/1P1-19560826.html\">rare visit<\/a>&quot; to France, asked the French President to mediate between Syria and Israel, since the United States was only interested at the time in Palestinian Israeli talks.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, the Americans got interested again in <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9506E7DF153FF935A25754C0A96F958260\">the Syrian track<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Post by Alex) Here are the first photos from Paris. Syrian President Bashar Assad arriving to Paris with his wife Asma.&nbsp; President Assad with French President Nicolas Sarkozy after first round of talks. 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