[Oxford Analytica/Forbes] President Bush met with Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday both separately and together to launch the peace negotiations inaugurated at Tuesday's Annapolis conference. It is clear that his administration will not be putting forward U.S. proposals on key issues, seeing its role rather as a facilitator of talks. Washington will lead an "informal mechanism" to monitor progress and adherence, Israel having rejected proposals for a formal three-way committee.
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