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TAGS: PREL PHUM SY CA
SUBJECT: PROBABLE CANADIAN DEMARCHE TO SYRIA
REF: 07 STATE 171106
1. (SBU) PolMinCouns on December 31 delivered reftel
demarche on Syria and the White House statement on the
National Council of the Damascus Declaration to Director
General for the Middle East and North Africa Gordon Venner of
the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Venner indicated on January 7 that Canada was likely to make
a demarche to the Syrian government on the release of
prisoners of conscience, and promised to provide further
information once the top DFAIT leadership had endorsed this
approach.
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