MIDDLE EAST: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON MEETS WITH ICELAND'S FM HALLDOR ASGRIMSSON AND SHIMON PERES HOLDS TALKS WITH GERMAN FM FISCHER IN JERUSALEM

Record ID: 400471

  • Title: MIDDLE EAST: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON MEETS WITH ICELAND'S FM HALLDOR ASGRIMSSON AND SHIMON PERES HOLDS TALKS WITH GERMAN FM FISCHER IN JERUSALEM
  • Date: 29th May 2002
  • Summary: (U7)JERUSALEM (MAY 29, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON WALKING INTO MEETING WITH ICELAND'S FOREIGN MINISTER HALLDOR ASGRIMSSON AND HIS DELEGATION 0.22 2. SV: SHARON SHAKING HANDS WITH ICELANDIC FOREIGN MINISTER ASGRIMSSON 0.28 3. SCU: WOMAN TAKING PHOTOGRAPH 0.30 4. WS: SHARON AND OTHER OFFICI
  • Embargoed: 13th June 2002 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM/ BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAZUARTRR69M7LR42K2YWO3A35
  • Story Text: Israeli prime minster Ariel Sharon has met with
    Icelands foreign minister Halldor Asgrimsson after the latter
    met with his counterpart Shimon Peres in Tel-Aviv earlier in
    the day.

    Meanwhile, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has met
    with Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres after meeting
    earlier with Israeli defence minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.



    Iceland's Foreign Minister Halldor Asgrimsson, who
    arrived for meetings met with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
    Sharon on Wednesday (May 29) in Jerusalem after meeting with
    his counterpart Shimon Peres in Tel-Aviv earlier in the day.

    Asgrimsson, Fischer and other diplomats have arrived in
    the region in an attempt to revive peace talks after the
    deaths of at least 1,375 Palestinians and 486 Israelis in 20
    months of violence.

    At the same time, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer
    met with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Earlier he had
    met with Israeli defence minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.

    Fischer said the idea of a Middle East conference this
    summer, organized by the United States, Russia, the United
    Nations and the European Union is "an excellent idea and it
    should be carefully worked out, we should bring these ideas
    forward."
    Meantime, in Bethlehem, the Israeli military continued to
    encircle the church of the Nativity. Israeli troops raided
    West Bank villages near Bethlehem overnight and re-entered the
    city of Qalqilya.

    The army said it had detained 15 people in the Bethlehem area.

    The Israeli army escorted media around the main square,
    near the church of the Nativity. Military trucks, jeeps and
    APCs were present in the radios of the church. One Israeli
    sniper was seen positioned on a window aiming his riffle
    towards manger square.
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