According Palestinian newspaper assennara (published in Israel); a secret meting was held between Syria and Israel foreign ministers in New York, last week, organized by the Emir of Qatar.
A high-ranking Arab source told “assennara” that the Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met with her Syrian counterpart Walid Al-Muallim in New York on Tuesday night this week, on the sidelines of the 62 session of the United Nations General Assembly, in the residence of the Qatar Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
The source explained that the Emir Al-Thani surprised Livni with proposal to hold a meeting between her and Al-Muallim, Livni asked to take permission from her PM Olmert first, who approved the meeting.
The source confirmed that the meeting was lasted more than an hour, discussing the tense atmosphere between the two countries and agreed on the need to reduce the level of tension and return to the objective policy.