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DUBAI-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told Turkey that Israel is willing to give back Syria's Golan Heights in return for peace with the Arab state, a Syrian cabinet minister said on Wednesday."Olmert is ready for peace with Syria on the grounds of international conditions; on the grounds of the return of the Golan Heights in full to Syria," Expatriates Minister Buthaina Shaaban told Al Jazeera television.She said the message about the Heights occupied by Israel since 1967 was made through Turkey.Syria's peace talks with Israel collapsed in 2000 over the scope of an Israeli pull-out from the Golan.International attempts to persuade Syria and Israel to resume talks foundered after the two sides attached conditions to a return to the negotiating table.Syria wants Israel to commit to a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights and prefers the United States, Israel's chief ally, to oversee the talks. Israel wants Syria's ties with Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas to be on the agenda.Media reports in Damascus said the Israeli offer was relayed to President Bashar al-Assad by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan."Erdogan telephoned President Assad on Tuesday to tell him that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had told him Israel was ready to withdraw completely from the Golan in exchange for peace with Syria," al-Watan newspaper said.A Syrian news website carried a similar report.To read more go to:
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