JERUSALEM: GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER JOSCHKA FISCHER MEETS ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER DAVID LEVY AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS

Record ID: 399588

  • Title: JERUSALEM: GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER JOSCHKA FISCHER MEETS ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER DAVID LEVY AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS
  • Date: 28th July 1999
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (JULY 28, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. DLV GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER JOSCHKA FISCHER ARRIVES AT ISRAEL'S FOREIGN MINISTRY 0.23 2. CU GERMAN FLAG ON CAR 0.26 3. SV/LV ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER DAVID LEVY AND JOSCHKA FISCHER SHAKE HANDS AT THE START OF THEIR MEETING (2 SHOTS) 0.32 4. MCU/LV LEVY AND FISCHER AT TALKS (3 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 12th August 1999 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA8MXI1R4QGGCX9C009CHNRAA6
  • Story Text: Foreign mediators have been shuttling between
    self-ruled Gaza and Jerusalem in an effort to smooth out
    difficulties in the peace negotiations between Israel and the
    Palestinians.

    German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer met Israeli
    Foreign Minister David Levy in Jerusalem on Wednesday (July
    28).

    Later on Wednesday he is scheduled to hold separate talks
    with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and then will head to
    self-ruled Gaza Strip for talks with Palestinian President
    Yasser Arafat.

    In the last two days, the European Union's Middle East
    envoy Miguel Moratinos has travelled between Jerusalem and
    Gaza for talks between Arafat and Barak.

    The foreign mediators aimed to smooth out difficulties
    between the sides following Barak's proposal to delay Israeli
    army troop redeployment from parts of the West Bank at a
    summit with Arafat late on Tuesday (July 27).

    Palestinians said Barak's insistence that Arafat take two
    weeks to mull over ideas about changing the Wye
    land-for-security accord was "a waste of time".

    Barak pledged to implement all aspects of the deal if
    Arafat rejected his proposal.


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