Syria Working on Timing for Lebanon Pullout

NPR | By Ivan Watson

Published March 12, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

A U.N. envoy who met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says there will be a Syrian timetable early next week for withdrawal from Lebanon. The U.S., France and Russia are among nations pressing Syria to remove its troops.

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