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Assad Pledges Visas
For Syrian Jews

New York (JTA) — A Syrian
pledge to grant exit visas to

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Syrian Jews is being greeted
with pleasure but a good
deal of skepticism by Ameri-
can Jewish groups.
Syrian President Hafez
Assad has promised that the
roughly 1,200 Jews remain-
ing in Syria will be allowed
to travel by the end of the
month, U.S. Secretary of
State Warren Christopher
said after meeting with Mr.
Assad in Damascus.
Mr. Assad also agreed to
allow a U.S. congressional

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tions, Syrian officials
stopped issuing visas en
masse. Since then, at most a
few visas have been issued
each week.
Mr. Christopher raised the
issue when he visited
Damascus in February, and
he received assurances at
the time that Syria had not
reversed its policy of free
travel.
Daniel Pipes, an analyst
with the Foreign Policy
Research Institute in
Philadelphia, predicted that
Syria will indeed resume
granting visas to Jews — but
not fully.
Just as the previous prom-
ise of free travel was only
partly fulfilled, "this will be
partially done," said Mr.
Pipes. "He doles it out in
small amounts, no more."
Mr. Assad wants to keep
open the options of both war
and peace, Mr. Pipes said.
Syria is maintaining close
ties with "rogue" states such
as Libya and Iran and is
supporting radical terrorist
groups.

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Hafez Assad:
Promised travel by month's end.

mission to investigate the
fate of missing Israeli ser-
vicemen, including
navigator Ron Arad.
In Israel, Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin called the de-
velopments an important
step forward and a hopeful
sign.
The New York-based
Council for the Rescue of
Syrian Jews said in a state-
ment that it was pleased by
the promise that travel
rights would be restored to
Syrian Jews, but it is
awaiting evidence that the
promise will be put into ac-
tion.
After decades in which
Syrian Jews were barred
from traveling abroad unless
they left behind family
members to ensure their
return, the Syrian govern-
ment declared a policy of
free travel in April 1992.
Between April and October
1992, 2,500 Syrian Jews
emigrated, most of them to
Brooklyn.
But on the eve of the 1992
American presidential elec-

Geneva (JTA) — A draft
resolution presented jointly
by Israel and Egypt calling
for international support of
the Middle East peace pro-
cess was accepted
unanimously last week by
the World Federation of
United Nations Associa-
tions.
The resolution, presented
at the federation's annual
meeting here, called upon
the group's member nations
to extend their influence to
ensure that a concerted
effort be made to foster the
economic progress of all
peoples living in the Middle
East as a means for helping
the peace process succeed.
But the measure
underlined that particular
attention must be paid to
raising the living standard
of the Palestinian people to
make the Israel-Palestine
Liberation Organization
self-rule accord work.
The federation, founded in
1946, was created to en-
courage popular interest in
U.N. programs and to fur-
ther international under-
standing.

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