Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, meeting with Danish officials in Copenhagen, was presented with the latest European Middle East peace plan today. Denmark now holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, but its plan is very similar to, and not meant to compete with, that which U.S. President George Bush spoke about last month in his public address.
Highly-placed security sources have intimated that intensive negotiations are already taking place in Europe. Israel\'s General Security Service head Ami Ayalon and others are meeting with leading Arabs from Judea and Samaria, according to the report, and on the agenda are the internationalization of Jerusalem and a return to the 1967 borders. Speaking on Tuesday at the new Chief-of-Staff ceremony, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said, \"It is likely that a window of hope has opened, and we have no intention of missing it.\"
Highly-placed security sources have intimated that intensive negotiations are already taking place in Europe. Israel\'s General Security Service head Ami Ayalon and others are meeting with leading Arabs from Judea and Samaria, according to the report, and on the agenda are the internationalization of Jerusalem and a return to the 1967 borders. Speaking on Tuesday at the new Chief-of-Staff ceremony, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said, \"It is likely that a window of hope has opened, and we have no intention of missing it.\"