Today\'s scheduled meeting between US President George Bush and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk a-Shara has been canceled. So reports El Manar, Hizbullah\'s television station in Syria. Officials in Washington reportedly told the Syrian Minister that he would not be received warmly, whereupon he said he would not show up. Tensions between the US and Syria result from the recent suicide bombing at the Megiddo Junction in Israel, in which 17 Israelis were killed - and for which the Syrian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.



Israel\'s Ambassador to the United Nations, Yehuda Lancry, said yesterday that Syria should not be permitted to serve on the Security Council because of its support for terrorism.