A document of 8 points to revive peace
Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 4/27/2002

The White House announced on Friday that the Saudi crown prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz handed over the US President George Bush a document composed of 8 points to revive the Israeli- Palestinian peace process, described by the US President as constructive.

The spokesman for the White House said in a press statement on the wake of the summit between Bush and the crown prince Abdullah in Crawford (Texas) that the Saudi document is a useful means and is considered by President Bush as constructive. He explained that the points mentioned in the Saudi document are an Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian self- rule territories and lifting the siege imposed on Ramullah and founding a multinational force and rebuilding the damaged Palestinian areas, giving up violence and concentration talks on the security issues, adopting Mitchell's plan and halting the building of Israeli settlement, a key role for the UN to implementing UN security council resolutions 242 issued on November 1967 provides for Israel's withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories.

On the establishing an international force, the US spokesman said that the US, for its part, agrees to send observers to the Palestinian territories but this has to be at the consent of Israel and the Palestinians. The spokesman indicated many points of agreements between the Saudi document and "what we want to do and many of these thoughts are ideas in which President Bush talked about in his speech delivered on April 4th."

Previous Stories:
  Saudi Arabia does not think of using oil as a weapon against the US   (4/26/2002)
  Crown prince Abdullah warns against not controlling Sharon   (4/26/2002)
  A difficult Saudi- American summit today   (4/25/2002)

Please add a link on your webiste pointing to ArabicNews.com and bookmark ArabicNews.com & subscribe to our daily email news bulletin.

Search