Arafat, Barak approve US plan to resume bilateral negotiations
Palestine-Israel-USA, Politics, 11/17/2000

The Israeli daily Maareve said on Wednesday that the chairman of the Palestinian government Yasser Arafat and the Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak agreed on a plan proposed to them by the US President Bill Clinton in Washington last week over resuming bilateral negotiations.

The paper noted that the plan states to return back of 94% of the lands of the West Bank to the Palestinian government and to set fixed borders, but also to keep the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza under total Israeli sovereignty.

The Israeli paper added that the American plan noted the possibility of the return back of tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees to the areas which will be supervised by the Palestinian government.

The paper said that Arafat told Clinton his desire to reach the permanent status agreement with Israel before January 20th, 2001. The Israeli radio reported.

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