Truemors
Mission impossible, the French president Sarkozy civilizing the "bad boys" for his Club Med plan. Obviously he has more success than the pragmatic US, to change things for Integration not for isolation.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due to visit Syria as part of efforts to improve ties between the two countries.
He described his trip as a "message of friendship" to the Syrians, according to Syria's al-Watan newspaper.
Relations between Paris and Damascus plummeted after the murder of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri in 2005.
Syria's critics accuse Damascus of being behind the assassination, a charge Syria has firmly denied.
Mr Sarkozy's two-day visit to Syria is the first by a Western head of state in five years.
He hosted Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in July and he appears determined to bring Syria, a long-time foe of the US and Israel, back into the international fold, correspondents say.
During the Paris summit, Syria and Lebanon, an important ally of France, agreed to open embassies in each other's capitals for the first since the 1940s.
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