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U.S. Road Map Envoy Leaves "On Vacation"


(Ha'aretz) - Aluf Benn U.S. road map monitor John Wolf has left the country for an unspecified length of time, on what is officially described as a vacation. Wolf found himself in an uncomfortable position in recent weeks, as his formal function came to an end with the collapse of Abbas's government and the de facto freeze in the implementation of the road map. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom in New York that "the road map is not dead. It is still alive and ways must be found to implement it." Powell told Shalom the new Palestinian prime minister-designate, Ahmed Qurei (Abu Ala), has more political power than his predecessors, and expressed hope that progress would be possible with him. Powell asked Shalom, "how do you know that if Arafat were gone, he will be replaced by moderate leaders? Maybe they would be more extreme?" Shalom responded, "the moderate camp is the majority in the Palestinian Authority, and whoever comes into power will certainly be less extreme than Arafat."
2003-09-26 00:00:00
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