Quartet Tries To Bypass Israel Will Try To Revive The Road Map

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Quartet Tries To Bypass Israel

Will Try To Revive The Road Map


May 4, 2004 2:37 am US/Central
UNITED NATIONS (AP) Four would-be peacemakers who offered the "road map" Middle East peace plan are urgently seeking to reinvigorate negotiations after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's political party rejected his offer to abandon Jewish settlements in Gaza.

Only the United States was enthusiastic in the first place about Sharon's idea, which would have withdrawn Israeli troops and all 7,500 settlers from the Gaza Strip and undertaken a partial pullback from the West Bank.

The other partners of the self-styled Quartet -- the United Nations, the European Union and Russia -- while aware that their joint road map to peace talks was languishing, preferred a much larger withdrawal and other changes.

The Bush administration held its ground Monday. The White House reaffirmed its support for what spokesman Scott McClellan called Sharon's bold proposal and said staff-level talks had begun with Israel to determine how......

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