Peres regrets he did not give immediate independence for Palestinians
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 2/21/2002

The Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres has admitted the mistake committed by Israel in not giving the Palestinians their independence, immediately.

News reports quoted Peres as saying in an interview issued by the Spanish daily Almondo on Wednesday that the mistake in the Israeli- Palestinian negotiations in Oslo was on that the Palestinians were not given their independence immediately.

Peres had cancelled his visit scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday for Spain following the suicide operation by Palestinians at an Israeli military check point in Ramullah in the west bank resulted in killing 6 Israelis.

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