USA: US SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL SAYS RESTRAINT IS NEEDED BY ISRAEL IN RETALIATION AGAINST PALESTINIAN ATTACKS
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USA: US SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL SAYS RESTRAINT IS NEEDED BY ISRAEL IN RETALIATION AGAINST PALESTINIAN ATTACKS
- Title: USA: US SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL SAYS RESTRAINT IS NEEDED BY ISRAEL IN RETALIATION AGAINST PALESTINIAN ATTACKS
- Date: 13th June 2003
- Summary: (EU) WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 13, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL AND RUDY GIULIANI, HEAD OF THE U.S. DELEGATION TO A EUROPEAN ANTI-SEMITISM CONFERENCE 00.10 2. REPORTERS LISTEN TO REMARKS 00.13 3. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL SAYING: "We've had good conversations yesterday and overnight and we know that there have been conversations between the two sides and both sides have indicated to me that they want to stay with the commitments they made to the world and to President Bush last week so we're continuing on with the road map and efforts to get both sides to start taking the steps that were laid out in the early stages of the road map." 00.44 4. REPORTERS LISTENING TO REMARKS 00.48 5. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL SAYING: "I think we all are anxious to see restraint and we understand that it's important to get the terror down, if the terror goes down then the response to terror will no longer be required. So we have to get moving and bring the terror down. All of our efforts are focused on Hamas and persuading Hamas and Islamic Jihad and other terror organisations that this is the time to abandon terror. The prime minister of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian Authority, last week called for the end to the armed intifada, speaking on behalf of the Palestinian people, and we hope that anyone who claims or pretends to represent the interests of the Palestinian people and is interested in the creation of a state for the Palestinian people will listen to his words and listen to the pleas from the international community to end this kind of activity so we can get going. We have a plan, we have the commitment of leaders and now we have to execute that plan and keep moving forward and not allow ourselves to be distracted or thrown off point from the promise that's out there with the road map by this surge of violence." 02.02 6. REPORTERS 02.05 7. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL SAYING: "Right now we are anxious to get both sides moving forward on their commitments and I think it's clear what we want. Hamas to stop it, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al Aqsa brigades, all of them to stop it and both sides meet the obligations they have under the road map that they made at the Aqaba summit." 02.27 8. POWELL WALKING INTO STATE DEPARTMENT 02.34 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Story Text: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has said the
United States is anxious to see restraint from Israel in
retaliating against Palestinian attacks and that such attacks
against Israelis must stop. But, he added, "we're continuing
with the road map."
Just a week after a landmark peace summit in Aqaba,
Jordan, a wave of renewed violence between Israel and
Palestinians has put United States (U.S.) President George W.
Bush's Mideast peace plan to the test. Despite predictions
the so-called road map was doomed , U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell insisted on Friday (June 13) it was not dead.
"We are continuing on with the road map," he said.
Powell said U.S. officials have had "good conversations"
with Israeli and Palestinian leaders recently and both had
said they wanted to stick with the "road map, " which calls
for them to take steps designed to end 32 months of violence
and for the creation of a Palestinian state by 2005.
Powell also said the U.S. was hoping to see restraint from
Israel, which has targeted militant leaders responsible for
suicide bombers in recent days.
"I think we all are anxious to see restraint and we
understand that it's important to get the terror down, if the
terror goes down then the response to terror will no longer be
required. So we have to get moving and bring the terror down,"
Powell told reporters following talks at the U.S. State
Department with former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who will
head a delegation to a European anti-Semitism conference later
this month.
Powell also said the U.S. hoped to persuade Islamic
militant groups such as Hamas, which claimed responsibility
for a deadly bus bombing in Jerusalem earlier this week, to
"abandon terror."
"All of our efforts are focused on Hamas and persuading
Hamas and Islamic Jihad and other terror organizations that
this is the time to abandon terror," Powell said.
"We have a plan, we have the commitment of leaders and
now we have to execute that plan and keep moving forward and
not allow ourselves to be distracted or thrown off point from
the promise that's out there with the road map by this surge
of violence," Powell added.
American diplomat John Wolf is expected to leave for
Jerusalem as early as Saturday (June 14) to lead a monitoring
team that would prod both sides to meet their day-to-day
commitments under the road map.
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