SYRIA CONDOLES ARMENIA OVER PLANE CRASH

SANA – Syrian Arab News Agency, Syria
May 3 2006

DAMASCUS, (SANA) – President Bashar al-Assad sent on Wednesday a
cable of condolences to his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian
over crash of an Armenian airplane and the killing of all passengers.

” On behalf of the Syrian people and me I express to you and to the
Armenian friendly people my heartfelt condolences wishing God would
avert the friendly people of Armenian ay trouble,’ the President said
in his cable. An Armenian passenger plane crashed in stormy weather
Wednesday off Russia’s Black sea coast while readying to land,
killing all 113 people on board most of them Armenians.