Israel: Arab League Plan for International Conference Is Attempt to Skip Roadmap Responsibility

[Ha'aretz] Shlomo Shamir and Aluf Benn - Israel is opposed to a new Arab League initiative to hold an international Middle East peace conference, which was discussed Tuesday by Arab foreign ministers in Cairo. Government sources in Jerusalem said the plan is a Palestinian attempt to evade applying the first stage of the road map which calls for the elimination of terrorist organizations in the Palestinian Authority. "An international conference is part of the second stage of the road map, but before that, the first stage must be carried out," the sources said.


2006-09-06 01:00:00

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