Moussa: Sharm el-Sheik summit is excluded, Arab summit is next
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 10/11/2000

Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said that the current atmospheres do not allow convening a four-way summit in Sharm El-Sheik (Egypt) and that the coming event is going to be the Arab summit.

There was US mention of US desire for holding a four-way summit (Egypt , Palestine, Israel, USA) in Egypt sometime this week to resolve the current crisis in the Palestinian lands.

Following his meeting in Damascus yesterday with his Syrian counterpart Farouk El-Shara, Moussa said "there will be no Palestinian - Israeli summit under the auspice of U.S.A in the area within a week."

Moussa assured following his return to Cairo that escaping the current crisis will not take place unless the Israeli forces stopped striking at the civilian Palestinians and withdraw from the locations its occupied lately.

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