Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, right, meets with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Sultanov in Damascus, Syria on Sunday, July 19, 2009. Russia, a member of the international quartet of nations trying to broker a Mideast peace, has offered to host a follow-up conference to the U.S.-brokered negotiations held last year in Annapolis, Maryland, to re-launch peace negotiations between Israel and the Arabs. Syria has said it will not attend any conference that doesn
(AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)