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Some Middle East watchers say that if things continue to spiral downward , American diplomats may have no choice but to reach out to Syria at least , even if it is through a back channel .
 location contains: Middle East, Syria
Given a phrase that describes the relationship between two words, extract the words and the lexical relationship between them. The output format should be "relation1: word1, word2; relation2: word3, word4". 
Option: ethnicity, place lived, geographic distribution, company industry, country of administrative divisions, administrative division of country, location contains, person of company, profession, ethnicity of people, company shareholder among major shareholders, sports team of location, religion, neighborhood of, company major shareholders, place of death, nationality, children, company founders, company founded place, country of capital, company advisors, sports team location of teams, place of birth 
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Answer:
 location contains: Middle East, Syria