Syria to attend peace conference
Syria will send its deputy foreign minister Faysal Mekdad to the US-sponsored Mideast peace conference this week after the issue of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights was added to the agenda, the state-run news agency said today.
The decision was made "after the Syria track was added to the conference agenda," confirmed the agency, but it did not say why it will not be the foreign minister attending like the other Arab participants.
