GERMANY: ISRAELI MERETZ PARTY HEAD YOSSI SARID SAYS ISRAEL MUST MAKE CONCESSIONS IN ORDER TO REACH FINAL PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS

Record ID: 400729

  • Title: GERMANY: ISRAELI MERETZ PARTY HEAD YOSSI SARID SAYS ISRAEL MUST MAKE CONCESSIONS IN ORDER TO REACH FINAL PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS
  • Date: 5th February 2002
  • Summary: (U5) BERLIN, GERMANY (FEBRUARY 5, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PALESTINIAN MINISTER FOR CULTURE AND SV: INFORMATION, YASSER ABED RABBO ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE 0.11 2. SLV: RABBO SITTING DOWN NEXT TO YOSSI SARID, HEAD OF ISRAEL'S MERETZ PARTY 0.19 3. SV: JOURNALISTS LISTENING TO NEWS CONFERENCE 0.23 4. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (Engli
  • Embargoed: 20th February 2002 12:00
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  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA5MIY780VZGJ3XWRTFKD638P8C
  • Story Text: Yossi Sarid, head of Israel's Meretz party has said
    that in order to reach a final peace agreement between
    Israelis and Palestinians, Israel must withdraw to the 1967
    borders, dismantle all Jewish settlements and divide Jerusalem
    into two capitals.


    Yossi Sarid, head of Israel's Meretz party was speaking
    at a news conference in Berlin on Tuesday (February 5) along
    with Palestinian minister for culture and information, Yasser
    Abed Rabbo.

    "When a final agreement will be reached there is no
    question that Israel will have to withdraw to the 1967 borders
    with minor, mutually agreed modifications," Sarid said.

    Sarid and Abed Rabbo are heading an Israeli-Palestinian
    coalition promoting peace in the Middle East.

    Sarid urged the United States to send their special envoy
    to the Middle East, Anthony Zinni, back to the region soon.

    "Probably the administration meant to punish Yasser Arafat
    by not sending back General Zinni. But as we collectively
    define it it is a collective punishment, it's not Yasser
    Arafat being punished," Sarid said of the lack of dialogue
    between the two sides.

    He added that in his view "It's up to the Americans, the
    only superpower on earth, to exercise their capabilities in a
    more efficient and responsible way."
    Sarid, Rabbo, former Israeli justice minister Yossi
    Beilin, Yuli Tamir, director of the Yitzhak Rabin Centre, and
    Ghassan Khatib, director of Jerusalem's centre for media and
    communication are currently in Germany at the invitation of
    the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, an organisation close to
    German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats.

    German foreign minister Joschka Fischer is planning
    another trip to the Middle East later this month, according to
    Berlin's foreign ministry.



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