LISBON, Portugal, April 6, SPA -- U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to stop off in Portugal Friday en route to Washington after a Middle East tour. The U.S. Embassy described the visit as an unofficial one, during which Pelosi will meet with her Portuguesecounterpart, Jaime Gama, and hold a news conference. «There is no policy agenda associated with the meeting,» the embassy said in a statement carried today by the Associated Press. Pelosi is returning from the Middle East where she metwith Syrian President Bashar Assad. On her Middle East tour, Pelosi also visited Israel,Lebanon, the Palestinian city of Ramallah and Saudi Arabia.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/438732