Jimmy Carter to visit Syria, Lebanon next week
Former U.S. president will discuss prospects for peace with Assad, give talk at Beirut university.
By The Associated Press Tags: Syria Jimmy Carter Lebanon Israel newsFormer President Jimmy Carter plans to meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad and other officials to discuss prospects for peace in the Middle East during visits to Lebanon and Syria next week.
The Carter Center said Friday that Carter will lead a pre-electoral assessment mission in Lebanon. The center is considering observing parliamentary elections scheduled for the spring.
Carter also will address students, faculty, and invited guests at the American University of Beirut on Dec. 12.
He will speak on 30 years after Camp David: A memo to the Arab World, Israel and the Quartet.
The Camp David Accords were a peace treaty brokered by Carter and signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978.
Many Israel supporters slammed Carter for his 2006 book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid", in which Carter argues that the primary obstacle to Middle East peace is "Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land."
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