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Bill Clinton: I brought up Hezbollah, the Jibril group, and the PKK specifically, as I said in my press conference that I did. I did.…

On the recordJanuary 16, 1994
I brought up Hezbollah, the Jibril group, and the PKK specifically, as I said in my press conference that I did. I did. And he gave his view that he's stated many times. He stated his position; I restated mine. I said, ``Look, we're not going to resolve this today,'' but that we can't have normal relations between the two of us, as opposed to what's going on in the Middle East, until they are resolved. And so I suggested that we give the Secretary of State and the Syrian Foreign Minister the opportunity to develop a mechanism to try to honestly and openly deal with these issues and let us bring our concerns in real specificity to them, let them respond, and see if we can work through it. Trip Highlights
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