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Israel's New Foreign Minister Meets Top U.S. Officials


(VOA News) Israel's new foreign minister, Silvan Shalom, met with top U.S. officials Monday including President Bush. Shalom said the pending confirmation of Abu Mazen as Palestinian prime minister opens a "new path" toward a renewed peace process, but efforts will go nowhere unless he launches an early crackdown against Palestinian terrorist factions. "I think that, if Abu Mazen will not take the right measures against terror when he comes into office, in his first or second month, he won't be able to do it after that," Shalom said. Earlier, White House security adviser Condoleezza Rice told the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC that the administration expects comments from the two parties on the roadmap, but said the document itself will not be renegotiated.
2003-04-01 00:00:00
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