Sharon ends Oslo agreements

The Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has announced that the Oslo agreements signed in 1993 between the Israelis and the Palestinians have ended.

The Israeli daily Maareve issued on Tuesday quoted Sharon as saying before members of the Israeli Knesset of the Likud Party in a close door meeting that Oslo agreements are no more existed. "It has finished." He expressed readiness for the establishment of a Palestinian state but under the condition of the framework of a settlement in which Israeli will be controlling the outer borders of this very Palestinian state.