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Israel Working to Make Road Map's Implementation Possible
(Maariv-Hebrew) - Shalom Yerushalmi Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said in a weekend interview, "We are on the way to adopting President Bush's vision and want the road map to reflect his speech [of last June]. We are not putting roadblocks in the path of the roadmap, but are reducing the gaps in order to make possible its implementation." Commenting on Abu Mazen's speech upon taking office, Shalom said, "he repeated the standard language on the right of return. He said the Palestinian people will not reach any agreement that includes anything less than an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital, and that it will be clean of settlements. It's important to pay attention to the phrasing he used - 'clean of settlements.'"