Mideast peace hopes shift to Washington

Published: 6 November 2000 y., Monday
As two Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers Sunday in the Gaza Strip — ending a two-day lull in deaths — hopes for peace shifted to separate meetings President Bill Clinton will hold with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in Washington this week. WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY Jake Siewert confirmed that Clinton will meet Thursday with Arafat and next Sunday with Barak. "The visit is important because it is related to the peace process and to discussion of the continuation of Israeli attacks on Palestinians," said Nabil Abu Rdainah, an adviser to Arafat. Earlier, Danny Yatom, a senior adviser to Barak, said there were no plans for a three-way meeting. In a plea for peace, tens of thousands of Israelis filled a Tel Aviv square Saturday night to pay tribute to former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated at the site five years ago by an ultranationalist Israeli opposed to trading land for peace with the Palestinians. Barak said at the rally that he could go to Washington "as soon as next week" to try to bring "peace and calm" to the region.
Šaltinis: MSNBC
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.

Facebook Comments

New comment


Captcha

Associated articles

The most popular articles

UKRAINIAN PREMIER VISITS MOSCOW

Russia and Ukraine are to sign a number of agreements in December, in particular, on the simplified border crossing regime more »

The Bulgarian President`s visit

AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV AND PRESIDENT OF BULGARIA GEORGI PARVANOV more »

Russia's Auditing Chamber Demands Soviet Property Reimbursed

The three post-Soviet Baltic countries-Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia-are to pay to Russia stale debts for former Soviet property, insists Russia's Auditing Chamber more »

Iran vows not to pursue nuclear weapons

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Wednesday his country will not pursue nuclear weapons but will strive for the right to utilize atomic energy for peaceful purposes more »

US vetoes draft on Israeli withdrawal from Gaza

The United States killed with its veto power on Tuesday another Arab draft UN Security Council resolution more »

Abkhazia set to elect new leader

A hard-nosed nationalist is expected to emerge as leader of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia more »

OSCE rejects observers proposed by CIS Executive Committee

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has rejected the candidate observers proposed by the CIC Executive Committee more »

The Questionnaire

EC PRESIDENT ROMANO PRODI HANDS OVER EC QUESTIONNAIRE FOR MACEDONIA more »

Belarus, Russia, Ukr border reg council meets in Kursk

The 16th meeting of the council of leaders of Belarussian, Russian and Ukrainian border regions opened in Kursk on S more »

Almaty to be large financial center

Development of Almaty as a financial center was discussed at governmental session chaired by Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Daniyal Akhmetov, PM’s press service reports more »