Friday, March 02, 2007

Israel Cannot Accept Arab Peace Initiative

By Aluf Benn and Amiram Barkat,
Haaretz Correspondents and Agencies
Last update - 13:34 01/03/2007
Haaretz

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told a Palestinian newspaper in an interview published Thursday that Israel could not accept a 2002 Arab League peace initiative in its current formulation.

Livni said that the issue of borders must be resolved through negotiations, not be determined in advance, and pointed out that the proposal for Palestinian refugees contained within the peace plan was unacceptable to Israel.

...The Arab initiative, drafted at a March 2002 meeting of the Arab League in Beirut, calls for the full normalization of ties between Israel and the Arab world in return for a complete Israeli withdrawal from all lands captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.

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