Assad says Saudi ties have been 'cloudy'
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Syrian President Bashar al- Assad said in an interview published on Monday that relations with Saudi Arabia had passed through a "cloudy" patch, but he hoped this month's Arab summit will help patch up differences.
"This relationship, like any Arab relationship, goes through cloudy patches, let's call it that, and recently there were clouds," Assad told the Saudi daily al-Jazirah. "We hope the Arab summit will be a new departure between Syria and Saudi Arabia and between the Arabs in general," he said, adding he had good personal relations with King Abdullah stretching back over a decade. (Reuters)
