Both nations have agreed in principle on a peace document.
In signing the peace document, Mr. Assad pledged to pull the military from restive cities, release political prisoners and start talks with the opposition on democratic reforms.
"We agree 100 percent with the Lusaka peace accord and therefore have no interest in pouring flames on an already hot situation," he said, referring to the peace document signed in the capital of Zambia last summer.
Shop stewards voted "overwhelmingly" to reject the potential settlement in a meeting today and they will recommend that 2,000 drivers turn down the peace document in a consultative ballot.
Fares (who spent 13 years in Israeli prisons himself for his activities during the first intifada), was a signatory to the Geneva Initiative, the extra-parliamentary peace document conceived of by Israeli politician Yossi Beilin, and Palestinian Yassar Abbed Rabbo.
Although the agreement signed in Skopje has been called the first step toward peace, the document will likely allow only for a pause in the ethnic struggle.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel, who won the 1980 Nobel peace prize for documenting the junta's atrocities, takes a similar view.
In regard to the peace process, that document merely states: "The Government will advance the political process and act to promote peace with all our neighbors, while preserving the security, historic and national interests of Israel".
The 73-year-old independent filmmaker and self-proclaimed peace activist is documenting his trip to Moscow to show people back home that Russia isn't as bad as it's made out to be.
"Grace and I have become good friends since she left the church, and she jumped at the opportunity to join with Planting Peace and help document the conditions in Jamaica when I told her what was happening there," Jackson told The Huffington Post in a statement.
