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The French press also gave heavy coverage to the visit to Paris of President Hafez el Assad of Syria who, Le Monde said, was seeking to advance the role of the European Union in the Middle East peace process at the expense of the United States.
A report in the Sunday Times of London said that Mossad, the Israeli secret service, managed to take a urine sample from President Hafez Assad of Syria when he was in Jordan in February 1999 for the funeral of King Hussein.
Among world leaders today the few practitioners of this form of personal rule include Syria's Hafez al-Assad ("Assad" means "lion" in Arabic) and Turkmenistan's Turkmenbashi--"father of the Turkmens," the form of address favored by President Saparmurat Niyazov, the landlocked republic's opéra - bouffe strongman who has commissioned a stunted replica of the Eiffel Tower, with a revolving statue of himself on top, for the center of his capital city, Ashkhabad.
Everyone wondered why Syrian President Hafez Assad didn't show up for the funeral (see "" for more).
"We should do everything to reach an agreement while Assad is alive," an aide to Israeli President Ehud Barak told the Sunday Times . "Nobody knows what will happen after Assad.