French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told his parliament Tuesday that he will make sure that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Syrian President Bashar Assad will sit at the same table at next month's forum launching the Mediterranean Forum. Assad has not yet accepted the invitation to attend.

"The Syrian president will be there, sitting next to, at the same table as, the Israeli president," he said, with the term "president" apparently referring to Prime Minister Olmert and not President Shimon Peres.  President Peres said Tuesday that if Assad truly wants peace, he should visit Jerusalem. 

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