A8 Assad Urged to Work with U.N. President Bashar al-Assad of Syria flew to Saudi Arabia for a meeting with Saudi leaders a day after he was quoted as saying that he would not cooperate with the United Nations investigation of the assassination of Rafik Hariri , the former Lebanese prime minister .
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