Jospin fears crisis in ME
The French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin on Saturday expressed his fears that the Middle East crisis has reached a phase whose results will be catastrophic for peace.
In a speech he delivered just few hours after he had arrived in Guadeloupe, where he had started an elections campaign, Jospin expressed his concern over the status of the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat who is besieged in his office in Ramullah in the west bank He stressed that reaching catastrophic results for peace in the Middle East is unacceptable and called for perpetuating the efforts for re-building peace.
