Peres to Egypt
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres will visit Egypt in the coming days and present the Israeli response to the Egyptian-Jordanian proposals. Prime Minister Sharon said yesterday that the plan must undergo several \"changes and improvements.\"
The plan calls vaguely for \"end[ing] confrontation,\" and then stipulates that Israel end the \"military and economic siege and the blockade,\" \"withdraw all its military forces... to their locations that existed in September 2000,\" pay its debts to the PA which has been waging war against it for the past seven months, freeze all settlement activities, including those in eastern Jerusalem, and resume final-status negotiations on all outstanding issues with the aim of concluding the talks within one year. These talks, according to the Egyptian-Jordanian plan, would be based on the \"progress\" that was achieved at the Clinton-Barak-Arafat talks in Camp David and later in Taba.
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres will visit Egypt in the coming days and present the Israeli response to the Egyptian-Jordanian proposals. Prime Minister Sharon said yesterday that the plan must undergo several \"changes and improvements.\"
The plan calls vaguely for \"end[ing] confrontation,\" and then stipulates that Israel end the \"military and economic siege and the blockade,\" \"withdraw all its military forces... to their locations that existed in September 2000,\" pay its debts to the PA which has been waging war against it for the past seven months, freeze all settlement activities, including those in eastern Jerusalem, and resume final-status negotiations on all outstanding issues with the aim of concluding the talks within one year. These talks, according to the Egyptian-Jordanian plan, would be based on the \"progress\" that was achieved at the Clinton-Barak-Arafat talks in Camp David and later in Taba.